Hi Michael, > 2) Using the form > `x' > is rendered nicely by groff for UTF-8 (proper opening and closing > single quotes), but looks ugly in ASCII, since ` and ' are not > visually balanced. (I see that this usage is common, and wonder > whether it rendered differently for ASCII in historical roff systems?)
It's always used those ASCII characters, 0x60 and 0x27, but the various serial terminals I used to use years ago had bitmap fonts that had them balanced, i.e. the ' lent to the right at the top. Cheers, Ralph.
