a problem about manual page's "`"

[Tony Nelson]

At 9:13 PM +0800 11/11/05, <hanpingtian at gmail.com> wrote:
>2005/11/11, Tony Nelson <tonynelson at georgeanelson.com>:
>> At 9:08 AM +0800 11/11/05, han pingtian wrote:
>> >hi,all
>> >I have a problem for a long time. It seems to me that the "man" show "`"
>> >as "'" in console or xterm or rxvt and so on even when the en_US.UTF-8
>> >locale is used. It is a big problem when describe the bash's feature
>> >`command` as 'command'. Anyone has the same problems? I run fedora core
>> >4 updated from FC3.
>>
>> Please don't keep reposting your question.
>>
>> FWIW, the characters you see as ' are not ` (though they should be) but are
>> ', due to stupid quote smartening by the formatting software.  Without the
>> smartening you'd probably have seen ` and not '.
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>
>Oh, I am sorry. I had not recived the mail I had sent to the list, so
>I sent it many times.
>How to disable the stupid quote smartening? Thanks lot.

I don't know exactly, but it should be possible to change the way man pages
are formatted.  If you do find out how to unsmarten the quotes, I'd also
like to know how to do it.
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