Hello Peter, On 10/26/21 11:07 PM, Peter Schaffter wrote:
Second question, maybe not so trivial. Is it acceptable to use a comma for decimal fractions that are arguments to requests and macros (say .ps 12,5 instead of .ps 12.5) if a user's locale supports it?
I ignore if groff technically accepts that as input. But the same as I strongly discourage naming your variables and functions in a language other than English, I strongly discourage using any locale other than the C locale in your source code. If next year some person from a different country takes your code, commas may not mean the same for that person.
Please, use international languages and conventions. Locales are useful for interacting with the user of a program, not for writing the program itself. And by program, please extend the interpretation to any source code, including groff input.
Thanks, Alex -- Alejandro Colomar Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/
