Hi Jörg,
Regarding the gettext(1) program and whether it expands escape sequences
by default:
1) [1] is ambiguous / self-contradictory.
On one hand it says:
This utility interprets C escape sequences such as \t for tab. Use \\ to
print a backslash...
Which sounds like they are expanded by
This is not invention, as even Solaris allows you to turn it off with -s, as
you point out. It may work fine for the charsets/charmap files Solaris
historically provides to have escapes active as the default, but this does not
equate to it being valid for all conforming charsets, if an
Shware Systems wrote:
> My two cents, I'm more in favor of requiring the -e ala GNU, as a byte stream
> that may be an escape for the charset of one locale may be plain text in
> another locale, especially when the encoding of the escape char itself
> differs. This can complicate editing data
Date:Tue, 21 Jan 2020 11:34:08 +
From:Geoff Clare
Message-ID: <20200121113408.GA27285@lt2.masqnet>
| If we do add something, then I think that some non-normative words along
| the lines of your explanation at the bottom ("to clarify that ...")
| would be
My two cents, I'm more in favor of requiring the -e ala GNU, as a byte stream
that may be an escape for the charset of one locale may be plain text in
another locale, especially when the encoding of the escape char itself differs.
This can complicate editing data files when a pot file is a
Bruno Haible wrote:
> Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > From looking at the current manuals available on Linux systems, I propose
> > to
> > start with the manual pages from OpenSolaris since these manual pages seem
> > to
> > be closer from being complete enough for the POSIX standard.
>
> The
All
Enclosed are the minutes from yesterday’s call
regards
Andrew
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Minutes of the 20th January 2020 Teleconference Austin-998 Page 1 of 1
Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. 21st January 2020
Attendees:
Don Cragun, IEEE PASC OR
Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22
Austin Group Bug Tracker wrote, on 20 Jan 2020:
>
> --
> (0004743) kre (reporter) - 2020-01-20 18:37
> https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1309#c4743
>
