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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