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authorG. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>2022-03-09 08:43:26 +1100
committerG. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>2022-03-09 08:43:26 +1100
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NEWS: Extend Latin-1/oq item to the X drivers.
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@@ -351,14 +351,14 @@ o A new device control command, "link", generates OSC 8 hyperlinks.
This means that groff documents can produce clickable links in the
terminal window for emulators that support such escape sequences.
-o On the Latin-1 output device ("groff -T latin1") the special character
- escape sequence \[oq] (opening quote) is now rendered as code point
- 0x27 (apostrophe) instead of 0x60 (grave accent). The ISO
- 8859/ECMA-94 Latin character sets do not define any glyphs for
- directional ("typographer's") quotation marks, but the apostrophe is
- depicted in the defining standard as a neutral (vertical) glyph,
- whereas the grave accent 0x60 and acute accent 0xB4 are
- mirror-symmetric diacritical marks.
+o On output devices using the Latin-1 character encoding ("groff -T
+ latin1" and the X11 devices) the special character escape sequence
+ \[oq] (opening quote) is now rendered as code point 0x27 (apostrophe)
+ instead of 0x60 (grave accent). The ISO 8859/ECMA-94 Latin character
+ sets do not define any glyphs for directional ("typographer's")
+ quotation marks, but the apostrophe is depicted in the defining
+ standard as a neutral (vertical) glyph, whereas the grave accent 0x60
+ and acute accent 0xB4 are mirror-symmetric diacritical marks.
This change has no effect on _input_ conventions for roff source
documents. You can still get directional single quotes on UTF-8,