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authorBruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>2017-11-18 23:16:00 +0100
committerBruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>2017-11-18 23:16:00 +0100
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Clarify the effect of uc_canonical_decomposition.
Prompted by a report by DaeHyun Sung <sungdh86@gmail.com>. * doc/uninorm.texi (Decomposition of characters): Clarify. * doc/libunistring.texi: Bump copyright year.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/libunistring.texi4
-rw-r--r--doc/uninorm.texi5
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/libunistring.texi b/doc/libunistring.texi
index 43a6ba5..a9c7e0f 100644
--- a/doc/libunistring.texi
+++ b/doc/libunistring.texi
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ This manual is for GNU libunistring.
@ignore
@c This was: @copying but it triggers a makeinfo 4.13 bug
-Copyright (C) 2001-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 2001-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This manual is free documentation. It is dually licensed under the
GNU FDL and the GNU GPL. This means that you can redistribute this
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ A copy of the license is included in @ref{GNU GPL}.
@page
@vskip 0pt plus 1filll
@c @insertcopying
-Copyright (C) 2001-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 2001-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This manual is free documentation. It is dually licensed under the
GNU FDL and the GNU GPL. This means that you can redistribute this
diff --git a/doc/uninorm.texi b/doc/uninorm.texi
index 6797fe8..5cad859 100644
--- a/doc/uninorm.texi
+++ b/doc/uninorm.texi
@@ -133,6 +133,11 @@ Returns the canonical character decomposition mapping of the Unicode character
When a decomposition exists, @code{@var{decomposition}[0..@var{n}-1]} is filled
and @var{n} is returned. Otherwise -1 is returned.
+
+Note: This function returns the (simple) ``canonical decomposition'' of
+@var{uc}. If you want the ``full canonical decomposition'' of @var{uc},
+that is, the recursive application of ``canonical decomposition'', use the
+function @code{u*_normalize} with argument @code{UNINORM_NFD} instead.
@end deftypefun
@node Composition of characters