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-rw-r--r--manual/message.texi6
-rw-r--r--manual/string.texi1
3 files changed, 13 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 64e224aac5..d68c22a970 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+1999-10-05 Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>
+
+ * manual/message.texi (The message catalog files): Fix description
+ to match gencat implementation and Unix98: Message fields are
+ separated by a single blank space.
+
+1999-10-05 Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>
+
+ * manual/string.texi (Search Functions): Add missing end for
+ memrchr description.
+
1999-10-04 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
* malloc/memprof.sh: Various small cleanups. Add short options.
diff --git a/manual/message.texi b/manual/message.texi
index 8e12dc8f56..294b9f0a77 100644
--- a/manual/message.texi
+++ b/manual/message.texi
@@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ be escaped using the backslash (i.e., @code{\"} must be written).
@item
Any other line must start with a number or an alphanumeric identifier
(with the underscore character included). The following characters
-(starting at the first non-whitespace character) will form the string
+(starting after the first whitespace character) will form the string
which gets associated with the currently selected set and the message
number represented by the number and identifier respectively.
@@ -390,10 +390,6 @@ identifiers will be explained below (@pxref{Common Usage}). There is
one limitation with the identifier: it must not be @code{Set}. The
reason will be explained below.
-Please note that you must use a quoting character if a message contains
-leading whitespace. Since one cannot guarantee this never happens it is
-probably a good idea to always use quoting.
-
The text of the messages can contain escape characters. The usual bunch
of characters known from the @w{ISO C} language are recognized
(@code{\n}, @code{\t}, @code{\v}, @code{\b}, @code{\r}, @code{\f},
diff --git a/manual/string.texi b/manual/string.texi
index 2d28dd2e47..8d2a33ea1a 100644
--- a/manual/string.texi
+++ b/manual/string.texi
@@ -1068,6 +1068,7 @@ located byte, or a null pointer if no match was found.
The function @code{memrchr} is like @code{memchr}, except that it searches
backwards from the end of the block defined by @var{block} and @var{size}
(instead of forwards from the front).
+@end deftypefun
@comment string.h
@comment ISO