On 05/12/2015 04:46 PM, Marko Myllynen wrote: > Hi, > > On 2015-05-12 17:23, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >> On 05/12/2015 03:57 PM, Marko Myllynen wrote: >>> >>> I'll send some locale related updates shortly, most of them should be >>> pretty self-explanatory but I'll provide some references in few cases >>> and I'm sure you can come up with slightly better wording here and there. >> >> I've applied all of the following: >> >> and also this one that you just sent >> >> Are there more to come? > > no, that's all, thanks for your superfast response! > >>> Related to wording, I see that setlocale(3) states: >>> >>> The locale "C" or "POSIX" is a portable locale; its LC_CTYPE part >>> corresponds to the 7-bit ASCII character set. >>> >>> And >>> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap07.html#tag_07_02 >>> states: >>> >>> The tables in Locale Definition describe the characteristics and >>> behavior of the POSIX locale for data consisting entirely of characters >>> from the portable character set and the control character set. For other >>> characters, the behavior is unspecified. >>> >>> Do you think setlocale(3) is consistent with the above? >> >> Help me here ;-). Do you see a problem? If yes, what is it? > > Perhaps it's just a language issue, the latter is IMHO somewhat clearer > wrt non-ASCII characters (someone could perhaps interpret setlocale(3) > so that non-ASCII characters are not allowed). I'm ok leaving it as-is, > just wanted to hear your opinion. I suppose I'd take a patch to improve this. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- 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
