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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