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! .\"	$OpenBSD: mandoc.1,v 1.160 2019/01/01 08:18:06 schwarze Exp $
  .\"
  .\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
  .\" Copyright (c) 2012, 2014-2018 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
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! .\"	$OpenBSD: mandoc.1,v 1.161 2019/02/23 18:52:45 schwarze Exp $
  .\"
  .\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
  .\" Copyright (c) 2012, 2014-2018 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
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  .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
  .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
  .\"
! .Dd $Mdocdate: January 1 2019 $
  .Dt MANDOC 1
  .Os
  .Sh NAME
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  .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
  .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
  .\"
! .Dd $Mdocdate: February 23 2019 $
  .Dt MANDOC 1
  .Os
  .Sh NAME
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  The special characters documented in
  .Xr mandoc_char 7
  are rendered best-effort in an ASCII equivalent.
+ In particular, opening and closing
+ .Sq single quotes
+ are represented as characters number 0x60 and 0x27, respectively,
+ which agrees with all ASCII standards from 1965 to the latest
+ revision (2012) and which matches the traditional way in which
+ .Xr roff 7
+ formatters represent single quotes in ASCII output.
+ This correct ASCII rendering may look strange with modern
+ Unicode-compatible fonts because contrary to ASCII, Unicode uses
+ the code point U+0060 for the grave accent only, never for an opening
+ quote.
  .Pp
  The following
  .Fl O