Bug 433242

Summary:	backticks are converted to left quotes (can't search for ` in man page)
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Mikel Ward <mikel>
Component:	groff	Assignee:	Marcela Mašláňová <mmaslano>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Mikel Ward 2008-02-17 23:50:36 UTC

If a ` (0x60 = ASCII grave accent) appears in a man page (e.g.
/usr/share/man/man1/perlop.1.gz), it is converted into a ‘(0xE2 0x80 0x98 =
U+2018 = Unicode left single quotation mark).

This means I can't search for backticks in man pages.

Is there any way to fix this?  (The obvious alternative is U+0060 = grave
accent, but apparently this is a spacing character, and I'm not sure what effect
that would have.)

Comment 1 Mikel Ward 2008-02-17 23:52:51 UTC

spacing sounds like exactly what I want
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-spacing_character
(non-spacing means it doesn't advance the cursor)

Comment 2 Mikel Ward 2008-02-18 00:06:55 UTC

According to groff_char(7), it should \[ga] (= grave accent), but I've also read
\' is the way to get one.

Will do some more digging.  Sounds like this will end up being a bug against
perldoc.

Comment 3 Mikel Ward 2008-02-18 00:18:34 UTC

Not a bug.  See bug 433243.