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

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Branden,

> >     0047   39    0x27    '
> >     0140   96    0x60    `
> >
> > It gives two distinct characters.
> 
> No one is saying these aren't distinct characters.  But what they are
> not is both single quote characters.  ASCII 0x60 is an acute accent,
> not a single quote.  Just because it can be semantically overloaded
> with a single left quotation mark doesn't mean that's what it is.

I only keep re-iterating that they're distinct since the problem with
transliterating `' onto '' is that the distinction is lost.
Consequently, the overloading is the right thing to do in 7-bit ASCII;
it's better than the alternatives.

Cheers,


Ralph.