Deal with double whitespace.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/usr.bin/wc/wc.1 b/usr.bin/wc/wc.1
index c3d8025d0a25..0656a5e715ae 100644
--- a/usr.bin/wc/wc.1
+++ b/usr.bin/wc/wc.1
@@ -120,7 +120,9 @@ Historically, the
 utility was documented to define a word as a ``maximal string of
 characters delimited by <space>, <tab> or <newline> characters''.
 The implementation, however, didn't handle non-printing characters
-correctly so that ``  ^D^E  '' counted as 6 spaces, while ``foo^D^Ebar''
+correctly so that
+.Dq "  ^D^E  "
+counted as 6 spaces, while ``foo^D^Ebar''
 counted as 8 characters.
 .Bx 4
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