Man changes ` to '

[Mario Lang]

What are your locale settings?
On my Debian system, I can not reproduce this.

Lee_Maschmeyer at wayne.edu writes:

> Hi folks,
>
> For a LONG time on my Fedora systems, man pages have shown up with
> backquotes changed to apostrophes. This is usually innocuous, but when
> the bash manual says command substitution is accomplished by 'command'
> it starts to get sinister!
>
> To reproduce or disprove this, do a `man bash' and, at the colon,
> issue:
>
> /Command Substitution
>
> By doing 
>
> man bash > bash.txt
>
> and using emacs to examine that file, I can tell it's not `less'
> that's the culprit. /etc/man.config specifies TROFF as "groff -Tps
> -man" and NROFF as "nroff --legacy NROFF_OLD_CHARSET -man". Changing
> both of these to "-Tascii -man" does no good.
>
> Assuming I'm not the only one with this problem, does anybody know how
> to fix it? Thanks much for any info,
>
> -- 
>
> Lee Maschmeyer
> <lee_Maschmeyer at wayne.edu>
>
> "Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear
> to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than
> what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise."
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-- 
CYa,
  Mario