46 lines
1.6 KiB
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46 lines
1.6 KiB
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From 260d71520ec0c96ef20670eca17d7b08cc9601ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
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From: =?UTF-8?q?Nikola=20Forr=C3=B3?= <nforro@redhat.com>
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Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 17:10:43 +0200
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Subject: [PATCH 1/5] nl_langinfo.3: note that Latin-1 is the default codeset
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for en_US locale charsets.7: note that UTF-8 is the recommended encoding for
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all locales
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---
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man3/nl_langinfo.3 | 6 ++++++
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man7/charsets.7 | 2 ++
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2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/man3/nl_langinfo.3 b/man3/nl_langinfo.3
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index e37f07b..63de5c2 100644
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--- a/man3/nl_langinfo.3
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+++ b/man3/nl_langinfo.3
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@@ -167,6 +167,12 @@ or
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.PP
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POSIX specifies that the application may not modify
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the string returned by these functions.
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+.PP
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+Codeset for en_US defaults to ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1).
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+The Latin-1 default has historical reasons,
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+since all Unix systems originally used only 8-bit character encoding.
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+For more information about ISO-8859-1 see
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+.BR charsets (7).
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.SH ATTRIBUTES
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For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
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.BR attributes (7).
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diff --git a/man7/charsets.7 b/man7/charsets.7
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index 5f91784..9de88fe 100644
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--- a/man7/charsets.7
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+++ b/man7/charsets.7
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@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ ASCII, GB 2312, ISO 8859, JIS, KOI8-R, KS, and Unicode.
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The primary emphasis is on character sets that were actually used by
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locale character sets, not the myriad others that could be found in data
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from other systems.
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+.LP
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+The recommended encoding in all settings and locales is UTF-8.
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.SS ASCII
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ASCII (American Standard Code For Information Interchange) is the original
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7-bit character set, originally designed for American English.
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--
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2.17.1
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