Re: charmap.5: remove accidental ISO C compliance reference

["Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On 06/18/2014 01:11 PM, Marko Myllynen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> a horrible braino slipped to charmap(5) introduction, it's probably
> best just to remove it (alternatively something could be stated about
> locales and charsets but perhas this is not the right place for it).

Thanks, Marko. Applied.

Cheers,

Michael

> 
>>From 46d2c698320125eb5e12a9dba2179931717a172f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Marko Myllynen <myllynen-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 10:52:34 +0300
> Subject: [PATCH] charmap.5: remove accidental ISO C compliance reference
> 
> glibc refers in locale/programs/charmap.c to ISO C 99 section 7.17.(2)
> and ISO C 99 section 5.2.1.(3) that if a character map is not ASCII
> compatible then the locale using it is not ISO C compliant. This does
> not state anything about the character set itself.
> ---
>  man5/charmap.5 |    2 --
>  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man5/charmap.5 b/man5/charmap.5
> index b9b2084..463e72d 100644
> --- a/man5/charmap.5
> +++ b/man5/charmap.5
> @@ -22,8 +22,6 @@ charmap \- characters to define character sets
>  .SH DESCRIPTION
>  A character set description (charmap) defines all available characters
>  and their encodings in a character set.
> -All ISO C compliant character sets should have
> -the ASCII character set as a proper subset.
>  .SS Syntax
>  The charmap file starts with a header that may consist of the
>  following keywords:
> 


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