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authorAlejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>2023-02-05 17:03:19 +0100
committerAlejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>2023-02-05 17:03:21 +0100
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downloadman-pages-b957f81fddf0d038c365bce226a677de6ceb1bbb.tar.gz
Many pages: Use \[aq] instead of \(aq
This improves readability in the source code, since it delimits where the escape sequence ends. Cc: наб <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz> Cc: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> Cc: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@Shaw.ca> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/man7/utf-8.7 b/man7/utf-8.7
index 5d737011f9..01e1907181 100644
--- a/man7/utf-8.7
+++ b/man7/utf-8.7
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ The most obvious
Unicode encoding (known as UCS-2)
consists of a sequence of 16-bit words.
Such strings can contain\(emas part of many 16-bit characters\(embytes
-such as \(aq\e0\(aq or \(aq/\(aq, which have a
+such as \[aq]\e0\[aq] or \[aq]/\[aq], which have a
special meaning in filenames and other C library function arguments.
In addition, the majority of UNIX tools expect ASCII files and can't
read 16-bit words as characters without major modifications.
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ UTF-8 .
All UCS characters greater than 0x7f are encoded as a multibyte sequence
consisting only of bytes in the range 0x80 to 0xfd, so no ASCII
byte can appear as part of another character and there are no
-problems with, for example, \(aq\e0\(aq or \(aq/\(aq.
+problems with, for example, \[aq]\e0\[aq] or \[aq]/\[aq].
.TP
*
The lexicographic sorting order of UCS-4 strings is preserved.