From: Sebastien Peterson-Boudreau <sebastien.peterson.boudreau@gmail.com>
To: dash@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use proper grave accent character
Date: Sat, 9 May 2026 15:20:35 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <af9681mqftmoCPdK@HQ> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <af6hpLV8IFrTd3G6@gondor.apana.org.au>
> Sorry could you please explain why this makes any difference because
> they look identical to my untrained eye.
No worries! In the troff(7)* language, the character ` becomes a left
quotation on typesetters supporting it, and ' becomes a right quotation.
IOW, if your terminal supports unicode (along with a few other variables),
`command`
in the input code can end up being displayed as
‘command‘
which is not the input the shell expects!
The way to typeset the ` character is with either the \` escape sequence
or the \(ga character -- both should be portable across different
*roff's according to groff_char(7), so I opted for the latter.
Hope this clarifies :)
---
* manual page might be groff(7) on your system.
--
S.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-09 18:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-18 18:55 [PATCH] Use proper grave accent character sebastien peterson boudreau
2026-05-09 2:53 ` Herbert Xu
2026-05-09 18:20 ` Sebastien Peterson-Boudreau [this message]
2026-05-10 9:40 ` Herbert Xu
2026-06-01 4:50 ` [PATCH] Use literal > and < characters Sébastien Peterson-Boudreau
2026-06-01 4:51 ` Sébastien Peterson-Boudreau
2026-06-01 4:53 ` [PATCH] Use proper grave accent character Sébastien Peterson-Boudreau
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