[PATCH] setlocale.3: tweak C/POSIX locale portability description

[PATCH] setlocale.3: tweak C/POSIX locale portability description

[Marko Myllynen]

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,

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Re: [PATCH] setlocale.3: tweak C/POSIX locale portability description

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

On 06/09/2015 04:18 PM, Marko Myllynen wrote:
> 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

Thanks, Marko. Applied.

Cheers,

Michael


> ---
>  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,
> 


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