From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Subject: Re: charmap.5: remove accidental ISO C compliance reference Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 15:43:03 +0200 Message-ID: <53A19767.60303@gmail.com> References: <53A173EA.3050809@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <53A173EA.3050809-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: myllynen-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, linux-man , Carlos O'Donell List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.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 > 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: > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- 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