Problem with single quotes

[Francesco Potorti`]

>> | >  fprintf ('''')
>> |
>> | I did not know that. That statement prints a double quote in Octave.
>>
>> No, it should print a single ' character, same as Matlab.
>
>I can only report what I see. I've tried it on Octave 3.0.2 (OS X) and  
>Octave 3.0.0 (Ubuntu Hardy). Both give me a double quote.

That's very strange.  Here is what I get on Octave 3.0.1 on Debian:

octave> fprintf ('''')
'octave> fprintf('''')
'octave> 
octave>

Would you copy and paste what you obtain?