From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marko Myllynen Subject: [PATCH] setlocale.3: tweak C/POSIX locale portability description Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2015 17:18:09 +0300 Message-ID: <5576F5A1.9030202@redhat.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: Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Cc: linux-man List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Hi Michael, as discussed earlier, the current description might be a little bit too stringent, let's avoid the issue by describing the portability aspect on a slightly higher level. References: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap06.html http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap07.html http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/setlocale.html --- man3/setlocale.3 | 6 ++---- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/man3/setlocale.3 b/man3/setlocale.3 index a3102ba..1d05ba7 100644 --- a/man3/setlocale.3 +++ b/man3/setlocale.3 @@ -117,10 +117,8 @@ The locale .B """C""" or .B """POSIX""" -is a portable locale; its -.B LC_CTYPE -part corresponds to the 7-bit ASCII -character set. +is a portable locale; +it exists on all conforming systems. .PP A locale name is typically of the form .IR language "[_" territory "][." codeset "][@" modifier "]," 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