acute-accent-in-manual-page

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.

Severity: info
Experimental: false
Renamed from: acute-accent-in-manpage

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