This prevents problems if one starts a line, which would cause it to be interpreted as a command character. Fixes #13038. (cherry picked from commit 1f7aa16eaefd0d20402791ab04eb2a707b2f597b)
@@ -427,6 +427,7 @@ sub dewikify_chunk {
# make sure these can't become part of roff syntax.
$str =~ s/\./\\[char46]/gms;
$str =~ s/"/\\(dq/gms;
+ $str =~ s/'/\\(aq/gms;
if ($wikitype eq 'mediawiki') {
# Dump obvious wikilinks.