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diff --git a/manual/charset.texi b/manual/charset.texi index 97fb2be..e21502e 100644 --- a/manual/charset.texi +++ b/manual/charset.texi @@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ defined in @file{wchar.h}. These internal representations present problems when it comes to storing and transmittal. Because each single wide character consists of more -than one byte, they are effected by byte-ordering. Thus, machines with +than one byte, they are affected by byte-ordering. Thus, machines with different endianesses would see different values when accessing the same data. This byte ordering concern also applies for communication protocols that are all byte-based and therefore require that the sender has to @@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ fulfill one requirement: they are "filesystem safe." This means that the character @code{'/'} is used in the encoding @emph{only} to represent itself. Things are a bit different for character sets like EBCDIC (Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code, a character set -family used by IBM), but if the operation system does not understand +family used by IBM), but if the operating system does not understand EBCDIC directly the parameters-to-system calls have to be converted first anyhow. @@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ state changes that cover more than the next character. This has the big advantage that whenever one can identify the beginning of the byte sequence of a character one can interpret a text correctly. Examples of character sets using this policy are the various EUC character sets -(used by Sun's operations systems, EUC-JP, EUC-KR, EUC-TW, and EUC-CN) +(used by Sun's operating systems, EUC-JP, EUC-KR, EUC-TW, and EUC-CN) or Shift_JIS (SJIS, a Japanese encoding). But there are also character sets using a state that is valid for more @@ -2225,7 +2225,7 @@ become clear that this is the name for the representation used in the intermediate step of the triangulation. We have said that this is UCS-4 but actually that is not quite right. The UCS-4 specification also includes the specification of the byte ordering used. Since a UCS-4 value -consists of four bytes, a stored value is effected by byte ordering. The +consists of four bytes, a stored value is affected by byte ordering. The internal representation is @emph{not} the same as UCS-4 in case the byte ordering of the processor (or at least the running process) is not the same as the one required for UCS-4. This is done for performance reasons |