grumbling guy with beard walks by, mumbles "Here's a dollar kid, get yourself a real font." And walks on...
Unless your shell and editor are displaying in courier, or you use extremely small glyphs (I've seen folks doing terrible things to their font scaling on 100dpi mac screens trying to get more lines on the screen) that should not be a problem. Certainly the Vera Mono font family gets this right; a backtick is quite distinct.
Unless your shell and editor are displaying in courier, or you use extremely small glyphs (I've seen folks doing terrible things to their font scaling on 100dpi mac screens trying to get more lines on the screen) that should not be a problem. Certainly the Vera Mono font family gets this right; a backtick is quite distinct.