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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>2000-02-22 09:00:35 +0000
committerUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>2000-02-22 09:00:35 +0000
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Update.
2000-02-22 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> * locales/mk_MK: New file. Contributed by Damjan Georgievski <gdamjan@freemail.org.mk> * SUPPORTED: Add mk_MK ISO-8859-1.
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@@ -524,7 +524,7 @@ The code to emit the escape sequence to get back to the initial state is
interesting. The @code{wcsrtombs} function can be used to determine the
necessary output code (@pxref{Converting Strings}). Please note that on
GNU systems it is not necessary to perform this extra action for the
-conversion from multibyte text ot wide character text since the wide
+conversion from multibyte text to wide character text since the wide
character encoding is not stateful. But there is nothing mentioned in
any standard which prohibits making @code{wchar_t} using a stateful
encoding.
@@ -703,7 +703,7 @@ bytes in the multibyte input string. This method yields to a
pessimistic guess about the size of the result and if many wide
character strings have to be constructed this way or the strings are
long, the extra memory required allocated because the input string
-contains multibzte characters might be significant. It would be
+contains multibyte characters might be significant. It would be
possible to resize the allocated memory block to the correct size before
returning it. A better solution might be to allocate just the right
amount of space for the result right away. Unfortunately there is no
@@ -1633,15 +1633,15 @@ of the conversions from @var{fromset} to @var{toset}.
The GNU C library implementation of @code{iconv_open} has one
significant extension to other implementations. To ease the extension
-of the set of available conversions the implementation allows to store
-the necessary files with data and code in arbitrary many directories.
-How this extensions have to be written will be explained below
+of the set of available conversions the implementation allows storing
+the necessary files with data and code in arbitrarily many directories.
+How this extension has to be written will be explained below
(@pxref{glibc iconv Implementation}). Here it is only important to say
that all directories mentioned in the @code{GCONV_PATH} environment
variable are considered if they contain a file @file{gconv-modules}.
These directories need not necessarily be created by the system
administrator. In fact, this extension is introduced to help users
-writing and using own, new conversions. Of course this does not work
+writing and using their own, new conversions. Of course this does not work
for security reasons in SUID binaries; in this case only the system
directory is considered and this normally is
@file{@var{prefix}/lib/gconv}. The @code{GCONV_PATH} environment
@@ -2048,7 +2048,7 @@ the GNU C library has none of the problems mentioned above. What
follows is a step-by-step analysis of the points raised above. The
evaluation is based on the current state of the development (as of
January 1999). The development of the @code{iconv} functions is not
-complete, but basic funtionality has solidified.
+complete, but basic functionality has solidified.
The GNU C library's @code{iconv} implementation uses shared loadable
modules to implement the conversions. A very small number of
@@ -2187,7 +2187,7 @@ set.
Explaining why the above @file{gconv-modules} files allows the
@code{iconv} implementation to resolve the specific ISO-2022-JP to
EUC-JP conversion module instead of the conversion coming with the
-library itself is straighforward. Since the later conversion takes two
+library itself is straightforward. Since the latter conversion takes two
steps (from ISO-2022-JP to @w{ISO 10646} and then from @w{ISO 10646} to
EUC-JP) the cost is @math{1+1 = 2}. But the above @file{gconv-modules}
file specifies that the new conversion modules can perform this
@@ -2230,7 +2230,7 @@ so that one can write new ones. This section describes the interface as
it is in use in January 1999. The interface will change in future a bit
but hopefully only in an upward compatible way.
-The definitions necessary to write new modules are publically available
+The definitions necessary to write new modules are publicly available
in the non-standard header @file{gconv.h}. The following text will
therefore describe the definitions from this header file. But first it
is necessary to get an overview.
@@ -2411,13 +2411,13 @@ the GNU C library also use the @code{iconv} functionality which
increases the number of uses of the same functions even more.
For this reason the modules do not get loaded exclusively for one
-conversion. Instead a module once loaded can be used by arbitrary many
+conversion. Instead a module once loaded can be used by arbitrarily many
@code{iconv} or @code{mbsrtowcs} calls at the same time. The splitting
of the information between conversion function specific information and
conversion data makes this possible. The last section showed the two
-data structure used to do this.
+data structures used to do this.
-This is of course also reflected in the interface and semantic of the
+This is of course also reflected in the interface and semantics of the
functions the modules must provide. There are three functions which
must have the following names: