Hi Michael, On 1/8/21 10:26 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > 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? Much better. But I still don't get why [A, B or C, D]. What does it mean? Thanks, Alex > > Thanks, > > Michael > -- Alejandro Colomar Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/
