Posted by Alexander Schwartz on Jul 28, 2019; 10:44am
URL: https://discuss.asciidoctor.org/How-to-use-curly-quotes-in-monospaced-block-tp7020p7021.html

I see at least two possibilities to add (typographic) curly quotes:

1. use unicode characters
2. enable macros as described in AsciiDoc Writers's Guide: Inline pass macro and explicit substitutions

The two examples below will lead to the same output:

Unicode variant:

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myapp/myapp.rs      # “executable”
myapp/myapp_test.rs # tests
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Macro variant:

[subs=+macros]
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myapp/myapp.rs      # pass:quotes["`executable`"]
myapp/myapp_test.rs # tests
----