Bug 177051

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Description of problem:
Bash man page says:

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Words of the form $âstringâ are treated specially.  The word expands to string, with backslash-escaped characters replaced as specifed by the ANSI C
standard.  Backslash escape sequences, if present, are decoded as follows:
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If the shell uses UTF-8, then the character displayed (â) is 0xe28099 
(try echo "$âsâ" | hexdump), which, being UTF-8, resolves to codepoint
0x2019  "1110(0010) 10(000000) 10(011001)" = "0010000000011001"
which is 'right single quotation mark' according to http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2000.pdf

This does not *necessarily look* (at least not in default Putty) like the character that should be shown, which is 'apostrophe', 0x27.
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0000.pdf

Raw man page shows the apostrophe, so on second thoughs it is probably 'nroff' that goes overboard:

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Words of the form \fB$\fP'\fIstring\fP' are treated specially.  The
word expands to \fIstring\fP, with backslash-escaped characters replaced
as specifed by the ANSI C standard.  Backslash escape sequences, if
present, are decoded as follows:
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Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
See above

  

Actual Results:  Bad character shown, making me go into trial-and-error mode

Expected Results:  Correct character shown, making me proceed with the shell script

Additional info:

I have standard "man" configuration