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

["Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>]

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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