Re: [Groff] Apostrophe mapped onto single closing quotation mark on utf8 device

[Bruno Haible]

Anton Shepelev wrote:
> in unicode.tmac:
> 
>    .char ' \[cq]
> 
> This causes all apostrophes to be typeset as closing
> single quotes.  Is it correct?

This is documented in "man groff_char":

       Most of the remaining characters not in the just described ranges print
       as themselves; the only exceptions are the following characters:

       `      the  ISO  latin1  ‘Grave  Accent’  (code 96) prints as ‘, a left
              single quotation mark; the original character  can  be  obtained
              with ‘\'’.

       '      the  ISO  latin1  ‘Apostrophe’  (code 39)  prints  as ’, a right
              single quotation mark; the original character  can  be  obtained
              with ‘\(aq’.

       ...

Bruno