Package: groff-base
Version: 1.18.1.1-12
Followup-For: Bug #334210

I don't think it should try to be "clever" and rewrite man pages
with curly-quotes in utf8.  For code examples and tutorials, this is 
horrendous, for example copying/pasting SQL examples from man pages.

I think if the authors want pretty characters, they should use them.
Stuff that prints to the command line shouldn't try to be a w.p.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-zeebus
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages groff-base depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.3.6-15   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.1.1-5  GCC support library
ii  libstdc++6                    4.1.1-5    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

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