From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marko Myllynen Subject: Re: Some locale related updates Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 17:46:22 +0300 Message-ID: <5552123E.9060005@redhat.com> References: <555206C7.8000308@redhat.com> <55520CE0.8080302@gmail.com> Reply-To: myllynen-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <55520CE0.8080302-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Cc: linux-man List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Hi, On 2015-05-12 17:23, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > On 05/12/2015 03:57 PM, Marko Myllynen wrote: >> >> I'll send some locale related updates shortly, most of them should be >> pretty self-explanatory but I'll provide some references in few cases >> and I'm sure you can come up with slightly better wording here and there. > > I've applied all of the following: > > and also this one that you just sent > > Are there more to come? no, that's all, thanks for your superfast response! >> Related to wording, I see that setlocale(3) states: >> >> The locale "C" or "POSIX" is a portable locale; its LC_CTYPE part >> corresponds to the 7-bit ASCII character set. >> >> And >> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap07.html#tag_07_02 >> states: >> >> The tables in Locale Definition describe the characteristics and >> behavior of the POSIX locale for data consisting entirely of characters >> from the portable character set and the control character set. For other >> characters, the behavior is unspecified. >> >> Do you think setlocale(3) is consistent with the above? > > Help me here ;-). Do you see a problem? If yes, what is it? Perhaps it's just a language issue, the latter is IMHO somewhat clearer wrt non-ASCII characters (someone could perhaps interpret setlocale(3) so that non-ASCII characters are not allowed). I'm ok leaving it as-is, just wanted to hear your opinion. Thanks, -- Marko Myllynen -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html