Hi Petr, On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 8:53 PM, Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxx> wrote: > This patch (against the latest git) attempts to clean up the $LANGUAGE > description, by removing bogus comments from setlocale(3) and expanding > the mention in locale(7). > > Maybe you will decide that a more detailed description should be left > to the gettext(3) documentation, but I actually care about the invisible > part of the patch more since the comments have put me off the track > initially ($LANGUAGE has nothing to do with setlocale(3) and is > completely isolated to gettext, as obvious from the glibc sources). > > Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxx> I dropped your in-source changelog entries, but otherwise applied the patch as is. It was a good thing to clean out those comments: they've languished in the source for a decade or more. Thanks! Cheers, Michael > diff --git a/man3/setlocale.3 b/man3/setlocale.3 > index a5d9896..21eebfb 100644 > --- a/man3/setlocale.3 > +++ b/man3/setlocale.3 > @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ > .\" Modified Sun Jul 4 14:52:16 1999 by Bruno Haible (haible@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) > .\" Modified Tue Aug 24 17:11:01 1999 by Andries Brouwer (aeb@xxxxxx) > .\" Modified Tue Feb 6 03:31:55 2001 by Andries Brouwer (aeb@xxxxxx) > +.\" Modified Thu Dec 4 02:34:27 2008 by Petr Baudis (pasky@xxxxxxx) > .\" > .TH SETLOCALE 3 1999-07-04 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" > .SH NAME > @@ -88,13 +89,7 @@ is > each part of the locale that should be modified is set according to the > environment variables. > The details are implementation-dependent. > -For glibc, first > -.\" [This is false on my system - must check which library versions do this] > -.\" if > -.\" .I category > -.\" is LC_MESSAGES, the environment variable LANGUAGE is inspected, > -.\" then > -(regardless of > +For glibc, first (regardless of > .IR category ), > the environment variable > .B LC_ALL > @@ -113,8 +108,6 @@ If its value is not a valid locale specification, the locale > is unchanged, and > .BR setlocale () > returns NULL. > -.\" The environment variable LANGUAGE may contain several, colon-separated, > -.\" locale names. > .PP > The locale > .B """C""" > diff --git a/man7/locale.7 b/man7/locale.7 > index 3da0ed7..8236e0f 100644 > --- a/man7/locale.7 > +++ b/man7/locale.7 > @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ > .\" Modified Sun Jun 01 17:16:34 1997 by Jochen Hein > .\" <jochen.hein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > .\" Modified Thu Apr 25 00:43:19 2002 by Bruno Haible <bruno@xxxxxxxxx> > +.\" Modified Thu Dec 4 02:34:27 2008 by Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxx> > .\" > .TH LOCALE 7 1993-04-24 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" > .SH NAME > @@ -98,7 +99,10 @@ and > functions to ease the use of these information. > The GNU gettext family of > functions also obey the environment variable > -.BR LANGUAGE . > +.BR LANGUAGE > +(containing a colon-separated list of locales) > +if the category is set to a valid locale other than > +.BR """C""" . > .TP > .B LC_NUMERIC > changes the information used by the > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git man-pages online: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online_pages.html Found a bug? http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
