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@@ -267,6 +267,17 @@ instead. The special characters documented in .Xr mandoc_char 7 are rendered best-effort in an ASCII equivalent. +In particular, opening and closing +.Sq single quotes +are represented as characters number 0x60 and 0x27, respectively, +which agrees with all ASCII standards from 1965 to the latest +revision (2012) and which matches the traditional way in which +.Xr roff 7 +formatters represent single quotes in ASCII output. +This correct ASCII rendering may look strange with modern +Unicode-compatible fonts because contrary to ASCII, Unicode uses +the code point U+0060 for the grave accent only, never for an opening +quote. .Pp The following .Fl O |