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diff --git a/manual/charset.texi b/manual/charset.texi index a49798c7c2..808469b8c1 100644 --- a/manual/charset.texi +++ 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 |