In troff you can escape “ ” ‘ ’ as \(lq, \(rq, \(oq, \(cq respectively. If you’re writing manpages, though, you should be using the -mdoc macros (https://manpa

In troff you can escape “ ” ‘ ’ as \(lq, \(rq, \(oq, \(cq respectively. If you’re writing manpages, though, you should be using the -mdoc macros (https://manpages.bsd.lv/mdoc.html https://manpages.bsd.lv/mdoc.html), which have “Dq” and “Sq” macros that wrap the arguments in double and single quotes respectively.