Bug#554897: lintian: [new check] ' groff escape sequence i..

* Russ Allbery <rra.RemoveThis@debian.org>, 2009-11-07, 10:54:
>> Many manual pages use the \' groff sequence with the intention to
>> express an apostrophe. This is incorrect, as \' in rendered as an acute
>> accent. It would be nice if lintian detected such cases.
>
>> Related bug: #507673.
>
>Hm, any ideas on how to tell when an acute accent really was intended? Or
>is that rare enough that it's very unlikely?

Most likely it was not intended. The only legitimate use of that
character I am aware of is being a part of a character map like:

groff(7)
groff_char(7)
iso-8859-1(7)

According to Markus Kuhn[1], "[t]he acute and grave accent characters
[...] have no common use in European text."

[1] http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/apostrophe.html

--
Jakub Wilk



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