LUZZY on Nostr: OOOOHHH I get it now. In m4, by default, you quote stuff like this: `QUOTED'. That's ...

OOOOHHH I get it now.
In m4, by default, you quote stuff like this:
`QUOTED'.
That's a grave accent and an apostrophe.
I thought that was really weird....

Later I was looking at the original m4 manual from 1977 and I found out WHY they chose those symbols.

The apostrophe was stylized as an acute accent before ASCII was later updated. So it looked right back then.

I include a picture from the 1977 ASCII standard (same year lol) where you can see it was indeed meant to look like ´ instead of ' . But at some point it changed.
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