Bug 433242 - backticks are converted to left quotes (can't search for ` in man page)
Summary: backticks are converted to left quotes (can't search for ` in man page)
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: groff
Version: 8
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Marcela Mašláňová
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-02-17 23:50 UTC by Mikel Ward
Modified: 2008-02-18 00:18 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-02-18 00:18:34 UTC
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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.
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