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diff --git a/tags/a/acute-accent-in-manual-page.tag b/tags/a/acute-accent-in-manual-page.tag new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a792a28 --- /dev/null +++ b/tags/a/acute-accent-in-manual-page.tag @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +Tag: acute-accent-in-manual-page +Severity: info +Check: documentation/manual +Renamed-From: acute-accent-in-manpage +Explanation: This manual page uses the <code>\'</code> 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 <code>'</code>. + For single opening quote, i.e. a straight downward line <code>'</code> + like the one used in shell commands, use <code>'\(aq'</code>. + . + In case this tag was emitted for the second half of a + <code>'\\'</code> sequence, this is indeed no acute accent, but still + wrong: A literal backslash should be written <code>\e</code> in the + groff format, i.e. a <code>'\\'</code> sequence needs to be changed + to <code>'\e'</code> which also won't trigger this tag. +See-Also: Bug#554897, Bug#507673, Bug#966803 |