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authortjr <tjr@FreeBSD.org>2002-10-06 06:03:23 +0000
committertjr <tjr@FreeBSD.org>2002-10-06 06:03:23 +0000
commit9e7f867aa7a090ffb5216bb6ed6d8befc5c93f5d (patch)
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parentb3e1209c7ad3529dbb9290543653daa2ac8d5352 (diff)
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Remove rants/whines about the rune interface being superior to the
ISO C interface.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/locale/rune.318
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/locale/rune.3 b/lib/libc/locale/rune.3
index 92763cd..c11dc89 100644
--- a/lib/libc/locale/rune.3
+++ b/lib/libc/locale/rune.3
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
.\" @(#)rune.3 8.2 (Berkeley) 12/11/93
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd December 11, 1993
+.Dd October 6, 2002
.Dt RUNE 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -266,15 +266,6 @@ binary LC_CTYPE file for the locale
.Xr setlocale 3 ,
.Xr euc 4 ,
.Xr utf2 4
-.Sh NOTES
-The ANSI C type
-.Em wchar_t
-is the same as
-.Em rune_t .
-.Em Rune_t
-was chosen to accent the purposeful choice of not basing the
-system with the ANSI C
-primitives, which were, shall we say, less aesthetic.
.Sh HISTORY
These functions first appeared in
.Bx 4.4 .
@@ -282,12 +273,7 @@ These functions first appeared in
The
.Fn setrunelocale
function and the other non-ANSI rune functions were inspired by
-.Sy "Plan 9 from Bell Labs"
-as a much more sane alternative to the ANSI multibyte and
-wide character support.
+.Sy "Plan 9 from Bell Labs" .
.\"They were conceived at the San Diego 1993 Summer USENIX conference by
.\"Paul Borman of Krystal Technologies, Keith Bostic of CSRG and Andrew Hume
.\"of Bell Labs.
-.Pp
-All of the ANSI multibyte and wide character
-support functions are built using the rune functions.
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