From: Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:41:34 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: doc: Remove curly quotes from shell examples in man pages
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doc: Remove curly quotes from shell examples in man pages

Use \(aq rather than a literal ' as groff will convert apostrophe
to a right quote (\u2029) in utf8 locales for example.
Stepan Kasal details the issue and fix here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2008-12/msg00124.html
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diff --git a/man/du.x b/man/du.x
index b170369742..85b9ff4491 100644
--- a/man/du.x
+++ b/man/du.x
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ will match any files whose names end in
 .BR .o .
 Therefore, the command
 .IP
-.B du --exclude='*.o'
+.B du --exclude=\(aq*.o\(aq
 .PP
 will skip all files and subdirectories ending in
 .BR .o
diff --git a/man/help2man b/man/help2man
index cbdaf065c3..66d715f0eb 100755
--- a/man/help2man
+++ b/man/help2man
@@ -567,7 +567,7 @@ and
 .B %s
 programs are properly installed at your site, the command
 .IP
-.B info coreutils '%s invocation'
+.B info coreutils \(aq%s invocation\(aq
 .PP
 should give you access to the complete manual.
 EOT