russ allbery qokstanfordedu michael g schwern writes lately perldoc evil things like replacing single quotes fancy unicode quotes displaying documentation dont know part formatting chain introducing hateful behavior royally screws pasting code perldoc im sure behavior started ive dealing ive never seen behavior know linux distributions tend turn groffs aggressive attempts manage quote marks possible mac os x podman intentionally tries create correct double quotes theyre marked code c verbatim blocks doesnt however anything intrinsically change single quotes one way expect youre caught default roff behavior platform may need escape single quotes fashion inside c verbatim blocks unfortunately absolutely free time present investigate however im sure pod work dropped near bottom priority list moment russ allbery qokstanfordedu thu 07 aug 2008 173831 0800 perldoc using fancy quotes