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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1999-10-05 15:26:17 +0000
committerUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1999-10-05 15:26:17 +0000
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Update.
1999-10-05 Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> * manual/message.texi (The message catalog files): Fix description to match gencat implementation and Unix98: Message fields are separated by a single blank space. 1999-10-05 Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> * manual/string.texi (Search Functions): Add missing end for memrchr description.
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@@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ be escaped using the backslash (i.e., @code{\"} must be written).
@item
Any other line must start with a number or an alphanumeric identifier
(with the underscore character included). The following characters
-(starting at the first non-whitespace character) will form the string
+(starting after the first whitespace character) will form the string
which gets associated with the currently selected set and the message
number represented by the number and identifier respectively.
@@ -390,10 +390,6 @@ identifiers will be explained below (@pxref{Common Usage}). There is
one limitation with the identifier: it must not be @code{Set}. The
reason will be explained below.
-Please note that you must use a quoting character if a message contains
-leading whitespace. Since one cannot guarantee this never happens it is
-probably a good idea to always use quoting.
-
The text of the messages can contain escape characters. The usual bunch
of characters known from the @w{ISO C} language are recognized
(@code{\n}, @code{\t}, @code{\v}, @code{\b}, @code{\r}, @code{\f},