| Teemu Likonen 2007-12-27, 7:36 am |
| Russ Allbery kirjoitti:
> Note that it only does this in verbatim text and in C<> blocks, so
> people who use 'text' or `text' in general text in POD will still get
> the Unicode quotes. I think this is the correct behavior, but I'm
> always open to further suggestions. (I'm upstream for Pod::Man.)
It's kind of nice to have real English single quotes is general text
(`these' produce real quotes). They print nicely in PostScript for
example. But yes, this causes some problems if a man page writer - be
it a machine or human - is not aware of the difference between English
quotes and shell quotes. There is logical difference even if they
happen to appear the same on some systems. It's very easy to write
something like this to man page's general text: "The string can be
enclosed in single (') quotes." And now we have English right single
quotation mark (and apostrophe) in man page, not a shell single quote.
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