Hello Alejandro,
hello Branden,
On Mon, Dec 05, 2022 at 09:00:58AM -0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> At 2022-12-04T21:27:05+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> > On 12/4/22 10:07, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> > > Issue: longest initial → initial
> >
> > Why? I believe "longest initial" is fine.
>
> I agree. POSIX says:
>
> "The wcscspn() function shall compute the length (in wide characters) of
> the *maximum initial segment* of the wide-character string pointed to by
> ws1 which consists entirely of wide-character codes _not_ from the
> wide-character string."[1]
>
> [* emphasis added, _ emphasis in original]
>
> This distinction is important for those who have learned, often the hard
> way, the difference between greedy and stingy pattern matches.[2]
Thanks. I do understand now.
(And this is where you can see that translators are not programmers,
the wording looked strange and hence this report came about.).
Please thus disregard this invalid report.
Greetings
Helge
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