Hi Alex,
On 1/7/21 7:32 PM, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> I don't understand what this paragraph means, I think it needs some wfix.
>
> Around setlocale.3:179:
> [
> On startup of the main program, the portable "C" locale is
> selected as default. A program may be made portable to all
> locales by calling:
>
> setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
>
> after program initialization, by using the values returned
> from a localeconv(3) call for locale-dependent information,
> by using the multibyte and wide character functions for text
> processing if MB_CUR_MAX > 1, and by using strcoll(3), wc‐
> scoll(3) or strxfrm(3), wcsxfrm(3) to compare strings.
>
> <<<Especially these last 2 lines
>
> ]
I see what you mean. I had to read that a few times to parse it.
It looks like the text was added in 1999. I think the following
clarifies and preserves the meaning:
[[
On startup of the main program, the portable "C" locale is select‐
ed as default. A program may be made portable to all locales by
calling:
setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
after program initialization, and then:
(a) using the values returned from a localeconv(3) call for lo‐
cale-dependent information;
(c) using the multibyte and wide character functions for text pro‐
cessing if MB_CUR_MAX > 1; and
(c) using strcoll(3), wcscoll(3) or strxfrm(3), wcsxfrm(3) to com‐
pare strings.
]]
What do you think?
Thanks,
Michael
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