Hi Michael, On 1/8/21 1:45 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > On 1/8/21 12:41 PM, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote: >> 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? > > I don't read it that way. I see it as: [A and (B and/or C and/or D]. > Do you see what I mean? About the three lines (a) (b) (c) as a whole, yes, I understand that part. About [strcoll(3), wcscoll(3) or strxfrm(3), wcsxfrm(3)], nope, I still can't understand the punctuation there. So I can't parse the inner contents of (c). Thanks, Alex > > Thanks, > > Michael > > -- Alejandro Colomar Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/
