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authorPeter Stephenson <pws@users.sourceforge.net>2009-03-03 21:04:52 +0000
committerPeter Stephenson <pws@users.sourceforge.net>2009-03-03 21:04:52 +0000
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26683: add some notes on LC_CTYPE
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@@ -906,7 +906,12 @@ information within ranges in glob brackets and for sorting.
 vindex(LC_CTYPE)
 item(tt(LC_CTYPE) <S>)(
 This variable determines the locale category for character handling
-functions.
+functions.  If the tt(MULTIBYTE) option is in effect this variable or
+tt(LANG) should contain a value that reflects the character set in
+use, even if it is a single-byte character set, unless only the
+7-bit subset (ASCII) is used.  For example, if the character set
+is ISO-8859-1, a suitable value might be tt(en_US.iso88591) (certain
+Linux distributions) or tt(en_US.ISO8859-1) (MacOS).
 )
 vindex(LC_MESSAGES)
 item(tt(LC_MESSAGES) <S>)(