From: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
To: Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>, <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Errors in man pages, here: wprintf(3): Wording
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 10:45:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200427084520.j4ykkbqjazd2phdi@jwilk.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200426163005.GB23062@Debian-50-lenny-64-minimal>
* Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de>, 2020-04-26, 18:30:
>But I noticed another possible issue when reading the text: Is the
>(L\\(aq\\e0\\(aq) korrekt? Is the "L" supposed to be some markup?
In the source that is:
L\(aq\e0\(aq
which is rendered by groff as
L'\0'
which is C syntax for null wide character:
https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/character_constant
--
Jakub Wilk
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-27 8:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-19 6:48 Errors in man pages, here: wprintf(3): Wording Helge Kreutzmann
2020-04-20 9:44 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-04-26 16:30 ` Helge Kreutzmann
2020-04-27 8:45 ` Jakub Wilk [this message]
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