diff --git a/lib/ManUtils/ManUtils.pm b/lib/ManUtils/ManUtils.pm
index 0502f39..3501b9a 100644
--- a/lib/ManUtils/ManUtils.pm
+++ b/lib/ManUtils/ManUtils.pm
@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ sub fmt {
      ".hy 0\n.de hy\n..\n"
     # Emulate man-db's --nj option
     .".na\n.de ad\n..\n"
+    # Unbreak some quotes, there's plenty of man pages that ("incorrectly") use these for code samples.
+    .".char ` \\`\n"
+    .".char ' \\[aq]\n"
     .encode_utf8($input);
 
   my $groff = run_cmd \@cmd,