[PATCH] texi2pod quote translation

[Bob Wilson]

I noticed that some of the binutils man pages have strange quotes in  
them.  For some reason, every single quote or back quote character in  
the texinfo file appears with a space before it in the man page.   
Worse, the texinfo convention of using two single quotes or two back  
quotes is not recognized and translated to use double quote  
characters.  For example, if the texinfo file has ``name'', the man  
page will show  ` `name ' ' instead of "name".  You can see examples  
of this in most of the binutils man pages, e.g., the reference to the  
FDL in the COPYRIGHT section.

I took a quick look at the etc/texi2pod.pl script and came up with  
this patch to fix the translation to double quotes.  I don't know  
what's causing the extra spaces characters before quotes.

Just for the record, there is a similar problem with dashes.  The  
texinfo conventions for en-dashes (two hyphens) and em-dashes (three  
hyphens) are not translated in the man pages as they are in the info  
files.  This is harder to fix because it's quite likely that double  
dashes will appear in sample input, code, examples, etc. and they  
should not be translated in those contexts.

Anyway, is this patch OK?

etc/ChangeLog entry:

2005-10-04  Bob Wilson  <bob.wilson@acm.org>

         * texi2pod.pl: Convert two single quotes or two backquotes to
         double quotes.


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