[Issue 8 drafts 0001562]: printf utility: clarify what is (byte) string an what is character string

2022-04-22 Thread Austin Group Bug Tracker via austin-group-l at The Open Group
A NOTE has been added to this issue. == https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1562 == Reported By:calestyo Assigned To:

Re: [Issue 8 drafts 0001562]: printf utility: clarify what is (byte) string an what is character string

2022-04-22 Thread Geoff Clare via austin-group-l at The Open Group
> -- > (0005806) calestyo (reporter) - 2022-04-15 02:55 > https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1562#c5806 > -- > a) What about line 104239,...

Re: [Issue 8 drafts 0001561]: clarify what kind of data shell variables need to be able to hold

2022-04-22 Thread Geoff Clare via austin-group-l at The Open Group
> -- > (0005807) calestyo (reporter) - 2022-04-15 23:38 > https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1561#c5807 > -- > Re:

Re: [Issue 8 drafts 0001560]: clarify wording of command substitution

2022-04-22 Thread Geoff Clare via austin-group-l at The Open Group
Geoff Clare wrote, on 22 Apr 2022: > > I'll insert "(one or more instances)". And having done so, the use of "zero or more instances" in the paragraph about IFS white space now seems wrong to me. I think it should be one or more as well. -- Geoff Clare The Open Group, Apex Plaza, Forbury

Re: [Issue 8 drafts 0001564]: clariy on what (character/byte) strings pattern matching notation should work

2022-04-22 Thread Harald van Dijk via austin-group-l at The Open Group
[accidentally replied privately, re-sending to list] On 22/04/2022 10:54, Geoff Clare via austin-group-l at The Open Group wrote: Harald van Dijk wrote, on 15 Apr 2022: For the most part(*), those shells that support locales appear to already be in agreement that single bytes that do not form

[Issue 8 drafts 0001560]: clarify wording of command substitution

2022-04-22 Thread Austin Group Bug Tracker via austin-group-l at The Open Group
A NOTE has been added to this issue. == https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1560 == Reported By:calestyo Assigned To:

Re: [Issue 8 drafts 0001560]: clarify wording of command substitution

2022-04-22 Thread Geoff Clare via austin-group-l at The Open Group
> -- > (0005802) calestyo (reporter) - 2022-04-15 00:41 > https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1560#c5802 > -- > AFAIU, this involves now three types

Re: [Issue 8 drafts 0001564]: clariy on what (character/byte) strings pattern matching notation should work

2022-04-22 Thread Geoff Clare via austin-group-l at The Open Group
Harald van Dijk wrote, on 15 Apr 2022: > > For the most part(*), those shells that support locales appear to already be > in agreement that single bytes that do not form a valid multi-byte character > are interpreted as single characters that can be matched with *, with ?, and > with those single

Re: [Issue 8 drafts 0001564]: clariy on what (character/byte) strings pattern matching notation should work

2022-04-22 Thread Geoff Clare via austin-group-l at The Open Group
Robert Elz wrote, on 15 Apr 2022: > > | That is how things are at present. The suggested changes just make it > | explicit. > > Yes, I know, but that's what I am suggesting that we not do in this one case. > > | Do you have an alternative proposal? > > Only to the extent of "do nothing".

[Issue 8 drafts 0001550]: clarifications/ambiguities in the description of context addresses and their delimiters for sed

2022-04-22 Thread Austin Group Bug Tracker via austin-group-l at The Open Group
A NOTE has been added to this issue. == https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1550 == Reported By:calestyo Assigned To: