Christian, there is no error in the source of the xorg.conf(5) manual
page. groff is a typesetting language with its own syntax that you need
to know if you intend to read the source directly. At the top of the
page it declares:

  .\" shorthand for double quote that works everywhere.
  .ds q \N'34'

This causes groff to replace \*q with \N'34' whenever it sees it, which
in turn expands to the ASCII " symbol. (It would be more usual to use
the predefined \(dq named character instead, but I suspect yelp might
have trouble with that too so who cares.)

There is no character set problem here, nothing to do with complicated
encoding matters or anything; the problem is simply that yelp doesn't
use man or groff to format manual pages and instead tries to do it
itself. Naturally it gets it wrong from time to time. This is a
fundamental design error in yelp and the best that can probably be done
in the short term is to crudely patch around it.

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