Hello Howard,
On 12/3/18 11:29 AM, Howard Johnson wrote:
Hi,
* I was reading the local-gen bash script, looking for why I'm getting
locale errors, when I noticed that localdef's -f and -c options were
named, in what I think, is a very confusing way.
-c is the same as --force, and
-f charmapfile is the same as --charmap=charmapfile.
Yes, it would have been better if they're names had been reversed, like
this:
-f is the same as --force, and
-c charmapfile is the same as --charmap=charmapfile.
But given what they are, I thought it would be helpful to give a heads
up to watch for their irregular naming. I hope I've worded it
appropriately.
* I'm not ccing this to anyone else, (i.e. developers, etc), as these
features work as described in the man page. They're just confusing.
* I think the man pages version is 4.17 (That's the git I just
downloaded from from here:
http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages
Thanks. Patch applied.
Cheers,
Michael
--- localedef.1 2018-12-02 12:03:43.708319772 -1000
+++ localedef.1~ 2018-12-02 11:56:44.400496581 -1000
@@ -144,7 +144,9 @@
.BR \-\-no\-archive .
.SS Other options
Some of the following options are sensible only for certain operations;
-generally, it should be self-evident which ones.
+generally, it should be self-evident which ones. Notice that -f and -c
+are reversed from what you might expect, i.e. -f is not the same as
+--force.
.TP
.BI \-f " charmapfile" "\fR, \fP\-\-charmap=" charmapfile
Specify the file that defines the character set
