[bug #62494] [grotty] Remap ~ and ^ to their ASCII equivalents

[John Gardner]

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #62494 (project groff):

[comment #1 comment #1:]
> It also puts additional stress on manual page writers, who are often
programmers with no particular interest in typesetting

That argument also goes both ways: programmers with an interest in typesetting
should know better than to seek typographic integrity in a low-resolution,
character-based display. Terminal fonts are less likely to have decent-looking
glyphs for "fancy" punctuation than fonts designed for high-resolution output
(e.g., print, web, PDFs, etc). Take macOS's default terminal font (Menlo
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menlo_(typeface)>):

(file #53237 Glyph comparison in macOS's Terminal.app)


> ASCII 0x27 -> U+0027 apostrophe
> ASCII 0x60 -> U+0060 grave

Pleasing-looking quotes are a nice-to-have, but between fancier apostrophes
and code samples that can be copy+pasted without the user needing to make
corrections… I’ll take the latter. 😉

> Unfortunately, when i said this in the past, Branden strongly opposed my
argument and not many others spoke up at all.

I regret not being present for the discussion. :/ This is certainly something
I should've weighed in on.



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