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Originally Posted by Corona688

And they did that by using the wrong quotation mark?

(I will assume the question is not rhetorical.)
No; bakunin is pointing out that perhaps another language might use something that looks like a single quote for something else in their language entirely and was referring to letters instead of single quotes as an example.
As I am lazy, I use the letter u to refer to 'micro' as in uF which is totally wrong but convenient, where as it should be μ for μF .

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

       bashbug [--help] [--version] [bug-report-email-addresses]

DESCRIPTION

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