RFC 3696, "Application Techniques for Checking and Transformation of Names", February 2004

Errata ID: 7592
Status: Held for Document Update
Type: Editorial
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Rémi Plénat
Date Reported: 2023-08-07
Held for Document Update by: RFC Editor
Date Held: 2024-04-09

Section 3 says:

acute accent ("`")

It should say:

backtick ("`")

Notes:

Acute accent would be in the other direction like in É.
This accent is usually mentioned as backtick or backquote.

===RPC Notes===

A bis doc should consider referring to "grave accent", "backtick", or "backquote".

From John Klensin:
"grave accent" is the term used both by Unicode and by the ASCII
standard (X3.4-1968, RFC 20, INCITS 4-1986[R2017], ISO 646 BV).
In Unicode-land and the surrounding vicinity, "backtick" is
often a combining character, U+0300, and backquote is, even more
often--and preferred by the Standard -- U+301D. Neither
backtick or backquote is used by Unicode to identify a
character, probably because of those ambiguities.

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