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Re: [Groff] Rendering \(oq in ASCII and ISO 8859-1


From: Branden Robinson
Subject: Re: [Groff] Rendering \(oq in ASCII and ISO 8859-1
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 14:28:45 -0500
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On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 03:44:59PM +0000, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> 
> Hi Colin,
> 
> > groff currently renders the single open quote character, \(oq, as `
> > (ASCII 0x60) in ASCII and Latin-1. According to
> > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html, this is incorrect:
> 
> But de facto under Unix.

Not when using my DEC VT520, and I think any DEC terminal back to the
VT220.

It is perhaps de facto under Unix when using VGA video cards.  But IBM
Codepage 437 is not ISO 646, 8859, or 10646.

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