Be nice with the poor server. Text mirror (pastebin):
The smart quote error was my mistake. I figured patches to email lists should be submitted in a signed email message and used Mail.app for the first time in a while (where I have it configured). Didn't see the auto corrected quote before sending. Contributed a new corrected patch which I hope works better.
I guess this patch will never be considered if the use of Comic sans is intentionally hard coded into httpd but at least I tried.