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authorJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2008-06-04 11:46:50 +0200
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2010-02-22 21:26:11 +0100
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manual: adjust grammar
* manual/charset.texi: Adjust grammar.
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diff --git a/manual/charset.texi b/manual/charset.texi
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+++ 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