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[PATCH]: doc grammar: one more patch
- From: Jim Meyering <jim at meyering dot net>
- To: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:03:45 +0100
- Subject: [PATCH]: doc grammar: one more patch
2010-02-21 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
doc: fix grammar
* manual/charset.texi: Correct grammar.
>From 46423ce04998da3b0776bd39c49da20904d5b55e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 11:46:50 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] doc: fix grammar
* manual/charset.texi: Correct grammar.
---
manual/charset.texi | 10 +++++-----
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/manual/charset.texi b/manual/charset.texi
index a49798c..808469b 100644
--- a/manual/charset.texi
+++ b/manual/charset.texi
@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ We already said above that the currently selected locale for the
by the functions we are about to describe. Each locale uses its own
character set (given as an argument to @code{localedef}) and this is the
one assumed as the external multibyte encoding. The wide character
-set always is UCS-4, at least on GNU systems.
+set is always UCS-4, at least on GNU systems.
A characteristic of each multibyte character set is the maximum number
of bytes that can be necessary to represent one character. This
@@ -577,8 +577,8 @@ The @code{btowc} function was introduced in @w{Amendment 1} to @w{ISO C90}
and is declared in @file{wchar.h}.
@end deftypefun
-Despite the limitation that the single byte value always is interpreted
-in the initial state this function is actually useful most of the time.
+Despite the limitation that the single byte value is always interpreted
+in the initial state, this function is actually useful most of the time.
Most characters are either entirely single-byte character sets or they
are extension to ASCII. But then it is possible to write code like this
(not that this specific example is very useful):
@@ -607,10 +607,10 @@ that there is no guarantee that one can perform this kind of arithmetic
on the character of the character set used for @code{wchar_t}
representation. In other situations the bytes are not constant at
compile time and so the compiler cannot do the work. In situations like
-this it is necessary @code{btowc}.
+this, using @code{btowc} is required.
@noindent
-There also is a function for the conversion in the other direction.
+There is also a function for the conversion in the other direction.
@comment wchar.h
@comment ISO
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