History of ellipsis in charmap and locale specifications?

Rafal Luzynski digitalfreak@lingonborough.com
Mon May 4 21:43:39 GMT 2020


Carlos,

1.05.2020 15:51 Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> Mike, Rafal,
> 
> Historically charmaps and locales support different kinds of ellipsis 
> expansion including: 
> "....(2)....", 
> "....", 
> "...", 
> "..(2)..", 
> and "..". 
> 
> POSIX seems to define only "..." for charmaps and locales.
> 
> Do we know where the rest of these came from?
> 
> I could reverse engineer what the code does for them, but in some cases
> it's kind of odd what they do and in some cases they are aliases for
> eachother.

I think I have not touched this code so I'm not sure I can help you.
Just in case, which files are you talking about?

Regards,

Rafal


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