[PATCH] locale.5: Decimal points, thousands separators must be one character

[PATCH] locale.5: Decimal points, thousands separators must be one character

[Florian Weimer]

This is implied by POSIX because it requires that these strings in the
locale definition file contain one symbol.  Currently, locale.5 does
not document the concept of symbols, this change glosses over that and
just uses the term "single-character string".

Signed-off-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>

---
 man5/locale.5 | 16 ++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man5/locale.5 b/man5/locale.5
index f6b63da9d..9789e0bb0 100644
--- a/man5/locale.5
+++ b/man5/locale.5
@@ -693,12 +693,12 @@ separator.
 followed by the local currency symbol.
 .TP
 .I mon_decimal_point
-followed by the string that will be used as the decimal delimiter
-when formatting monetary quantities.
+followed by the single-character string that will be used as the
+decimal delimiter when formatting monetary quantities.
 .TP
 .I mon_thousands_sep
-followed by the string that will be used as a group separator
-when formatting monetary quantities.
+followed by the single-character string that will be used as a group
+separator when formatting monetary quantities.
 .TP
 .I mon_grouping
 followed by a sequence of integers separated by semicolons that
@@ -962,12 +962,12 @@ in the first column.
 The following keywords are allowed:
 .TP
 .I decimal_point
-followed by the string that will be used as the decimal delimiter
-when formatting numeric quantities.
+followed by the single-character string that will be used as the
+decimal delimiter when formatting numeric quantities.
 .TP
 .I thousands_sep
-followed by the string that will be used as a group separator
-when formatting numeric quantities.
+followed by the single-character string that will be used as a group
+separator when formatting numeric quantities.
 .TP
 .I grouping
 followed by a sequence of integers separated by semicolons

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Re: [PATCH] locale.5: Decimal points, thousands separators must be one character

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

On 10/9/20 10:40 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> This is implied by POSIX because it requires that these strings in the
> locale definition file contain one symbol.  Currently, locale.5 does
> not document the concept of symbols, this change glosses over that and
> just uses the term "single-character string".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>

Thanks, Florian. Patch applied.

Cheers,

Michael

> ---
>  man5/locale.5 | 16 ++++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man5/locale.5 b/man5/locale.5
> index f6b63da9d..9789e0bb0 100644
> --- a/man5/locale.5
> +++ b/man5/locale.5
> @@ -693,12 +693,12 @@ separator.
>  followed by the local currency symbol.
>  .TP
>  .I mon_decimal_point
> -followed by the string that will be used as the decimal delimiter
> -when formatting monetary quantities.
> +followed by the single-character string that will be used as the
> +decimal delimiter when formatting monetary quantities.
>  .TP
>  .I mon_thousands_sep
> -followed by the string that will be used as a group separator
> -when formatting monetary quantities.
> +followed by the single-character string that will be used as a group
> +separator when formatting monetary quantities.
>  .TP
>  .I mon_grouping
>  followed by a sequence of integers separated by semicolons that
> @@ -962,12 +962,12 @@ in the first column.
>  The following keywords are allowed:
>  .TP
>  .I decimal_point
> -followed by the string that will be used as the decimal delimiter
> -when formatting numeric quantities.
> +followed by the single-character string that will be used as the
> +decimal delimiter when formatting numeric quantities.
>  .TP
>  .I thousands_sep
> -followed by the string that will be used as a group separator
> -when formatting numeric quantities.
> +followed by the single-character string that will be used as a group
> +separator when formatting numeric quantities.
>  .TP
>  .I grouping
>  followed by a sequence of integers separated by semicolons
> 


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