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branch-1_4 another POSIX compliance issue


From: Eric Blake
Subject: branch-1_4 another POSIX compliance issue
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 06:26:25 -0600
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Until we use gettext in 1.5, we might as well document that we don't
handle locales as POSIX requires.

2006-08-09  Eric Blake  <address@hidden>

        * doc/m4.texinfo (Incompatibilities): Document that m4 does not
        yet understand locales.

- --
Life is short - so eat dessert first!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
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Index: doc/m4.texinfo
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/m4/m4/doc/m4.texinfo,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.1.2.62
diff -u -p -r1.1.1.1.2.62 m4.texinfo
--- doc/m4.texinfo      8 Aug 2006 23:17:44 -0000       1.1.1.1.2.62
+++ doc/m4.texinfo      9 Aug 2006 12:01:21 -0000
@@ -4639,6 +4639,12 @@ adds the exponentiation operator @samp{*
 @acronym{POSIX} requires @code{translit} (@pxref{Translit}) to treat
 each character of the second and third arguments literally, but @acronym{GNU}
 @code{m4} treats @samp{-} as a range operator.
+
address@hidden
address@hidden requires @code{m4} to honor the locale environment
+variables of @env{LANG}, @env{LC_ALL}, @env{LC_CTYPE},
address@hidden, and @env{NLSPATH}, but this has not yet been
+implemented in @acronym{GNU} @code{m4}.
 @end itemize
 
 @node Other Incompatibilities

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