where to put documentation of programs that accompany libc?

Bruno Haible bruno@clisp.org
Mon Jan 12 14:32:00 GMT 2004


Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> Wouldn't --help be enough (for all the noted programs)?

No. Some of the doc I want to write for iconv is too lengthy for --help.

> Depends on how much documentation they need I guess.

For localedef, I'd like to document the syntax of locale files and charmaps.
In the past we have been using the 14652 draft as a reference, but since
we don't implement all of it and since we are likely to make new additions
for particular cultures (things like "outdigits"), I think a documentation
in GNU libc would be appropriate. Its size will likely be more than 20 pages.

Bruno



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