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From: sl@stanleylieber.com
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Subject: Re: [9front] 'LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK' in FQA
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>> in the fqa, some command invocations have a 'LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK'
>> where i think a simple single quote (') would be more appropriate, for
>> example in http://fqa.9front.org/fqa7.html#7.6.2. is there any
>> particular reason to keep the strange unicode character?
> 
> Compare:
> 
> 	/n/fqa/fqa7.ms:1200
> 
> with
> 
> 	/n/fqa/fqa7.html:1398
> 
> The HTML is generated with htmlroff -u -ms -mhtml. I agree, when it
> comes to displaying commands meant to be typed into the terminal
> window, it would be better to keep the actual character used in the
> input.
> 
> I will look into this when I get a chance.

Looks like I can just escape the ' and troff will not convert it.

sl