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No "back quote" in lucida fonts?

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From: Daniel Ehrlich
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1990 19:17
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I am trying to use one of the lucida typewriter fonts and noticed that both
the left signle quote (back quote) and the right single quote seem to return
the same keycode.  Trying to use back-quote substitution in csh fails, which
is how I noticed this to begin with.  The font that I am using is:

	-*-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-*-sans-*-120-*

In the BDF file for this font there appear entries for both left and right
single quotes:

From mit/fonts/bdf/100dpi/lutRS12.bdf:

STARTCHAR quoteright
ENCODING 39
SWIDTH 42 0
DWIDTH 10 0
BBX 2 4 4 8
BITMAP
C0
C0
40
C0
ENDCHAR

STARTCHAR quoteleft
ENCODING 96
SWIDTH 42 0
DWIDTH 10 0
BBX 2 4 4 8
BITMAP
C0
80
C0
C0
ENDCHAR

Similar entries are present in mit/fonts/bdf/75dpi/lutRS12.bdf.  But when I
hit the back quote key on my keyboard I get a right quote.

Here are ten characters from hitting the left  single quote: ``````````
Here are ten characters from hitting the right single quote: ''''''''''

My configuration is:

	RT 6152 Academic System
	AOS 4.3 Release 2
	8514/A Display Adapter w/expanded memory
	8514 Display

We used High-C V2.1s to compile the server and clients.

Has anyone else run into this problem?  Does anyone know how to fix it?
Thanks in advance.
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Dan Ehrlich <ehrlich@cs.psu.edu>
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Subject: No "back quote" in lucida fonts?
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