CVSROOT: /webcvs/grep Module name: grep Changes by: Jim Meyering <meyering> 16/04/22 05:25:56
Index: html_node/Environment-Variables.html =================================================================== RCS file: /webcvs/grep/grep/manual/html_node/Environment-Variables.html,v retrieving revision 1.23 retrieving revision 1.24 diff -u -b -r1.23 -r1.24 --- html_node/Environment-Variables.html 11 Mar 2016 06:09:08 -0000 1.23 +++ html_node/Environment-Variables.html 22 Apr 2016 05:25:55 -0000 1.24 @@ -13,10 +13,10 @@ "GNU Free Documentation License". --> <!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 6.0, http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ --> <head> -<title>GNU Grep 2.24: Environment Variables</title> +<title>GNU Grep 2.25: Environment Variables</title> -<meta name="description" content="GNU Grep 2.24: Environment Variables"> -<meta name="keywords" content="GNU Grep 2.24: Environment Variables"> +<meta name="description" content="GNU Grep 2.25: Environment Variables"> +<meta name="keywords" content="GNU Grep 2.25: Environment Variables"> <meta name="resource-type" content="document"> <meta name="distribution" content="global"> <meta name="Generator" content="makeinfo"> @@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ if the locale catalog is not installed, or if <code>grep</code> was not compiled with national language support (NLS). +The shell command <code>locale -a</code> lists locales that are currently available. </p> <p>Many of the environment variables in the following list let you control highlighting using @@ -309,6 +310,10 @@ <p>These variables specify the locale for the <code>LC_CTYPE</code> category, which determines the type of characters, e.g., which characters are whitespace. +This category also determines the character encoding, that is, whether +text is encoded in UTF-8, ASCII, or some other encoding. In the +‘<samp>C</samp>’ or ‘<samp>POSIX</samp>’ locale, all characters are encoded as a +single byte and every byte is a valid character. </p> </dd> <dt><code>LANGUAGE</code></dt>
