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# `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`

## See also

- Bug#554897

- Bug#507673

- Bug#966803

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