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.\" $NetBSD: nls.7,v 1.12 2007/02/21 00:11:55 gmcgarry Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: nls.7,v 1.13 2007/03/02 20:28:54 wiz Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2003 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
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.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.Dd May 17, 2003
.Dd February 21, 2007
.Dt NLS 7
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -103,17 +103,17 @@ ISO C specifies the following six standard categories supported by
.Nx :
.Pp
.Bl -tag -compact -width LC_MONETARYXX
.It LC_COLLATE
.It Ev LC_COLLATE
string-collation order information
.It LC_CTYPE
.It Ev LC_CTYPE
character classification, case conversion, and other character attributes
.It LC_MESSAGES
.It Ev LC_MESSAGES
the format for affirmative and negative responses
.It LC_MONETARY
.It Ev LC_MONETARY
rules and symbols for formatting monetary numeric information
.It LC_NUMERIC
.It Ev LC_NUMERIC
rules and symbols for formatting nonmonetary numeric information
.It LC_TIME
.It Ev LC_TIME
rules and symbols for formatting time and date information
.El
.Pp
@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ The standard is divided into 15 numbered parts, with each
part specifying broad script similarities.
Examples include Western European, Central European, Arabic, Cyrillic,
Hebrew, Greek, and Turkish.
The character sets use an 8-bit character encoding scheme which is
The character sets use an 8-bit character encoding scheme which is
compatible with the ASCII character set.
.It Unicode
The Unicode character set is the full set of known abstract characters of
@ -439,7 +439,9 @@ or may contain state (i.e., adjacent characters are dependent).
ISO C specifies a set of functions using 'wide characters' which can handle
multi-byte encodings properly.
The behaviour of these functions is affected
by the LC_CTYPE category of the current locale.
by the
.Ev LC_CTYPE
category of the current locale.
.Pp
A wide character is specified in ISO C
as being a fixed number of bits wide and is stateless.
@ -466,7 +468,7 @@ There are some additional functions that operate on
See
.Xr wctype 3
and
.Xr wctran 3
.Xr wctrans 3
for details.
.Pp
Wide characters should be used for all I/O processing which may rely