Lintian tag: acute-accent-in-manual-page
Type: information
Description (from lintian-explain-tags
)
This manual page uses the \' groff sequence. Usually, the intent is to
generate an apostrophe, but that sequence actually renders as an acute
accent.
For an apostrophe or a single closing quote, use plain '. For single
opening quote, i.e. a straight downward line ' like the one used in shell
commands, use '\(aq'.
In case this tag was emitted for the second half of a '\\' sequence, this
is indeed no acute accent, but still wrong: A literal backslash should be
written \e in the groff format, i.e. a '\\' sequence needs to be changed
to '\e' which also won't trigger this tag.
Please refer to Bug#554897, Bug#507673, and Bug#966803 for details.
Visibility: info
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Check: documentation/manual
Renamed from: acute-accent-in-manpage
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