Hi, i just submitted the following patch to the groff bugtracker:
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?55616 The (identical) rationale and patch are reproduced below for convenience. I'm posting this heads-up just in case anybody wants to raise a concern that i overlooked. Of course, OKs for commit are welcome, too (i'll of course do a ChangeLog entry when committing, but i wanted to keep the patch simple for review). Yours, Ingo ----- 8< ----- schnipp ----- >8 ----- 8< ----- schnapp ----- >8 ----- If i remember correctly, some time ago, people went through error messages and manual pages and changed single-quoted strings where the opening quote was an "accent grave" to the normal ASCII U+0027 APOSTROPHE-QUOTE because rendering single quotes like `this' was considered an anachronism from the mechanical typewriter era. However, the -T ascii output device still renders \(oq as "accent grave", also affecting macro packages that implement single quoting macros in terms of \(oq, for example mdoc(7) .Sq. I propose the patch below to change the -T ascii (and -T latin1) rendering of \(oq from "accent grave" to APOSTROPHE-QUOTE. No other output device is affected. For example, this makes -Tascii-rendered manual pages look less antique, and if this is decided, i will do the same in mandoc(1). However, i think it's also the right thing to do for non-manual-page documents. Issue brought up by Anthony Bentley@ (OpenBSD). ----- 8< ----- schnipp ----- >8 ----- 8< ----- schnapp ----- >8 ----- diff --git a/font/devascii/R.proto b/font/devascii/R.proto index 7144dae5..abb3a594 100644 --- a/font/devascii/R.proto +++ b/font/devascii/R.proto @@ -48,8 +48,9 @@ Do " ' 24 0 0047 aa " fm " aq " +oq " cq " ( 24 0 0050 ) 24 0 0051 * 24 0 0052 @@ -142,9 +143,8 @@ ha " _ 24 0 0137 ru " ul " ` 24 0 0140 -oq " ga " a 24 0 0141 b 24 0 0142 c 24 0 0143 diff --git a/font/devlatin1/R.proto b/font/devlatin1/R.proto index ff333563..a8d093a1 100644 --- a/font/devlatin1/R.proto +++ b/font/devlatin1/R.proto @@ -47,8 +47,9 @@ Do " & 24 0 0046 ' 24 0 0047 fm " aq " +oq " cq " ( 24 0 0050 ) 24 0 0051 * 24 0 0052 @@ -141,9 +142,8 @@ ha " _ 24 0 0137 ru " ul " ` 24 0 0140 -oq " ga " a 24 0 0141 b 24 0 0142 c 24 0 0143
