commit cdaeb8c0b808cd3f708f2cefd62d767ee82144ef
Author: Laslo Hunhold <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Sat Oct 17 18:21:10 2020 +0200
Commit: Laslo Hunhold <[email protected]>
CommitDate: Sat Oct 17 18:21:51 2020 +0200
Fix two small mistakes in libgrapheme.7
Thanks Silvan for reporting them and Greg for providing some
native speaker input!
Signed-off-by: Laslo Hunhold <[email protected]>
diff --git a/man/libgrapheme.7 b/man/libgrapheme.7
index 9e18abc..678f309 100644
--- a/man/libgrapheme.7
+++ b/man/libgrapheme.7
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ expanded since its first introduction (emojis, joiners,
etc.). A sequence
this way and represents an abstract character is called a
.Dq grapheme cluster .
.Pp
-In many applications, it is necessary to count the number of
+In many applications it is necessary to count the number of
user-perceived characters, i.e. grapheme clusters, in a string. This is
pretty simple with ASCII-strings, where you just count the number of
bytes (as each byte is a code point and each code point is a grapheme
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ is continued between two code points. Libraries like ICU,
which also
offer this functionality, are often bloated, not correct, difficult to
use or not statically linkable. The motivation behind
.Nm
-is to make grapheme cluster handling suck less and abide the UNIX
+is to make grapheme cluster handling suck less and abide by the UNIX
philosophy.
.Sh AUTHORS
.An Laslo Hunhold Aq Mt [email protected]
