[PATCH v2 3/5] manual: Add new header and standards annotations.

Zack Weinberg zackw@panix.com
Fri Jun 16 13:40:00 GMT 2017


On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 11:08 PM, Rical Jasan <ricaljasan@pacific.net> wrote:
> On 04/04/2017 04:26 AM, Joseph Myers wrote:
>> On Tue, 4 Apr 2017, Rical Jasan wrote:
>>> the files are parsed and entries stored.  Note that the locale is
>>> respected, so different users may have differently-ordered Summary
>>> chapters, but summary.awk appears to have done this as well.
>>
>> Respecting the locale is a simple bug; LC_ALL=C should be used in the
>> makefile when running anything that does sorting etc. as part of the build
>> process (as it already is in many places).
>
> But I like case insensitive sorting and expect exit, _Exit, and _exit to
> all be together in my manual.  :P  Anyway, "fixed" locally.

Would you please start a separate thread about this?  I can imagine
the indexes being more useful both ways, and we ought to be able to
arrange for ASCII-case-insensitive sorting independent of locale if we
conclude that it's a good idea.

(The most obvious question here is whether all the UPPERCASE_CONSTANTS
should get their own thumb notches, but there may be other factors.)

zw



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