From 870d48813cf9aacaae6b51757435e8aecedaab85 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Florian Weimer Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2020 10:40:22 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] locale.5: Decimal points, thousands separators must be one character This is implied by POSIX because it requires that these strings in the locale definition file contain one symbol. Currently, locale.5 does not document the concept of symbols, this change glosses over that and just uses the term "single-character string". Signed-off-by: Florian Weimer Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man5/locale.5 | 16 ++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/man5/locale.5 b/man5/locale.5 index f6b63da9d..9789e0bb0 100644 --- a/man5/locale.5 +++ b/man5/locale.5 @@ -693,12 +693,12 @@ separator. followed by the local currency symbol. .TP .I mon_decimal_point -followed by the string that will be used as the decimal delimiter -when formatting monetary quantities. +followed by the single-character string that will be used as the +decimal delimiter when formatting monetary quantities. .TP .I mon_thousands_sep -followed by the string that will be used as a group separator -when formatting monetary quantities. +followed by the single-character string that will be used as a group +separator when formatting monetary quantities. .TP .I mon_grouping followed by a sequence of integers separated by semicolons that @@ -962,12 +962,12 @@ in the first column. The following keywords are allowed: .TP .I decimal_point -followed by the string that will be used as the decimal delimiter -when formatting numeric quantities. +followed by the single-character string that will be used as the +decimal delimiter when formatting numeric quantities. .TP .I thousands_sep -followed by the string that will be used as a group separator -when formatting numeric quantities. +followed by the single-character string that will be used as a group +separator when formatting numeric quantities. .TP .I grouping followed by a sequence of integers separated by semicolons