On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 08:07:14AM -0400, pryzbyj wrote:
> On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 11:49:15PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> > Justin,
> >
> > > > > Any suggestions about other pages whose SEE ALSO should mention this
> > > > > page?
> > > > Not really ... I'll have to think about it.
> > > I'm including patches to add a SEE ALSO, and also to fix and tweak the
> > > page based on some new\-found understanding ..
> > >
> > > If you tell me where to get your most recent copy, then I'll provide a
> > > patch against that.
>
> > > +only the first character of \fIresponse\fP is considered significant.
> > > +Responses matching \fBm/^[Yy]/i\fP are always accepted as affirmative
> > > +(in any locale), and those matching
> > > +\fBm/^[Nn]/i\fP are always accepted as negative.
> >
> > This is more detail than I think is really required to explain
> > the point. You already say that just the first character is
> > significant. The additional RE isn't needed.
> But this happens for any locale; it is a behaviour to document, not an
> implementation.
Does there exist a [latin] language where _("no") doesn't begin with
'n', so I can test that this is true not just for "yes" ("oui")?
For that matter, is there a language in which _("yes") and _("no")
begin with the same character?
For that matter, is there a language in which _("yes") and _("no")
begin with the same byte?
BTW, locale.7.gz already referenced rpmatch.
Justin
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