[Bug 234771] Re: acute accent marks in man page

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** Branch linked: lp:~jelmer/bzr/manpage-apostrophes

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Title:
  acute accent marks in man page

Status in Bazaar Version Control System:
  In Progress
Status in “bzr” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “bzr” package in Debian:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
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  Russ Allbery wrote:
  > Package: bzr Version: 1.0-1 Severity: minor
  >
  > The man page generated by the generate_docs.py tool tries to escape
  >  apostrophes with \.  This doesn't work correctly with a current
  > groff. \' is converted to an acute accent mark rather than an
  > apostrophe.
  >
  > With groff, what you want is \(aq.  Unfortunately, that's
  > groff-specific and won't work with, for example, Solaris man.
  >
  > Pod::Man adds:
  >
  > .ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq .el       .ds Aq '
  >
  > to the preamble of the man page and then uses \*(Aq as the escape
  > for apostrophes in the man page.
    affects bzr
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