Re: [Groff] Rendering \(oq in ASCII and ISO 8859-1

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Colin,

> groff currently renders the single open quote character, \(oq, as `
> (ASCII 0x60) in ASCII and Latin-1. According to
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html, this is incorrect:

But de facto under Unix.

> Could \(oq in devascii and devlatin1 be changed to produce 0x27?

I for one would be unhappy for `quotes' to be indistinguishable on tty
output.


Ralph.