Module Name: src
Committed By: wiz
Date: Wed Feb 13 22:19:48 UTC 2013
Modified Files:
src/lib/libc/gen: vis.3
Log Message:
Mark up LC_CTYPE as environment variable.
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Index: src/lib/libc/gen/vis.3
diff -u src/lib/libc/gen/vis.3:1.35 src/lib/libc/gen/vis.3:1.36
--- src/lib/libc/gen/vis.3:1.35 Wed Feb 13 22:17:12 2013
+++ src/lib/libc/gen/vis.3 Wed Feb 13 22:19:48 2013
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: vis.3,v 1.35 2013/02/13 22:17:12 christos Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: vis.3,v 1.36 2013/02/13 22:19:48 wiz Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -397,11 +397,13 @@ ambiguous and non-invertible.
.Sh MULTIBYTE CHARACTER SUPPORT
These functions support multibyte character input.
The encoding conversion is influenced by the setting of the
-LC_CTYPE environment variable which defines the set of characters
+.Ev LC_CTYPE
+environment variable which defines the set of characters
that can be copied without encoding.
.Pp
-When 8-bit data is present in the input, LC_CTYPE must be set to
-the correct locale or to the C locale.
+When 8-bit data is present in the input,
+.Ev LC_CTYPE
+must be set to the correct locale or to the C locale.
If the locales of the data and the conversion are mismatched,
multibyte character recognition may fail and encoding will be performed
byte-by-byte instead.
