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commit 74f84dbece3b11f6d1cbdb46531af2c474255f91
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Fri Mar 27 21:09:09 2026 -0500
[doc,man,NEWS]: Tighten wording.
What ISO C refers to as `CHAR_BIT` doesn't matter here.
---
NEWS | 4 ++--
doc/groff.texi.in | 2 +-
man/groff.7.man | 2 +-
man/groff_diff.7.man | 2 +-
4 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 3cb4aff27..fb9a4c4da 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ troff
* The `trf` (transparent file throughput) request now discards input
characters that are invalid in GNU troff's output format, meaning all
- 8-bit character codes less than decimal 32 (except 10, the line feed)
- and greater than decimal 127.
+ character codes less than decimal 32 (except 10, the line feed) and
+ greater than decimal 127.
* A new read-only register `.ul` reports the count of productive input
lines remaining to be be underlined in the environment (as configured
diff --git a/doc/groff.texi.in b/doc/groff.texi.in
index b66339bd4..8eadbf521 100644
--- a/doc/groff.texi.in
+++ b/doc/groff.texi.in
@@ -20110,7 +20110,7 @@ discards input characters that are invalid in
GNU
@command{troff}'s @c GNU
output format,
-meaning all 8-bit character codes less than decimal 32
+meaning all character codes less than decimal 32
(except 10,
the line feed)
and greater than decimal 127.@footnote{@xref{GNU
diff --git a/man/groff.7.man b/man/groff.7.man
index 844ea7c04..bd4c5841d 100644
--- a/man/groff.7.man
+++ b/man/groff.7.man
@@ -5392,7 +5392,7 @@ discards input characters that are invalid in
GNU
.IR troff 's \" GNU
output format,
-meaning all 8-bit character codes less than decimal 32
+meaning all character codes less than decimal 32
(except 10,
the line feed)
and greater than decimal 127.
diff --git a/man/groff_diff.7.man b/man/groff_diff.7.man
index 1a0f7fd4a..0c35a8d6c 100644
--- a/man/groff_diff.7.man
+++ b/man/groff_diff.7.man
@@ -4583,7 +4583,7 @@ discards input characters that are invalid in
GNU
.IR troff 's \" GNU
output format,
-meaning all 8-bit character codes less than decimal 32
+meaning all character codes less than decimal 32
(except 10,
the line feed)
and greater than decimal 127.
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