Re: Suggestion of wording for portion of man page

2025-01-16 Thread Lawrence Velázquez
On Thu, Jan 16, 2025, at 8:05 PM, Wiley Young wrote: > In Parameter Expansions / Case Modification: > > [S1] > The first sentence reads, "alphabetic characters," which can imply that > wherever else in the paragraph the word "characters" is used, that the > intended meaning is "alphabetic charact

Re: Suggestion of wording for portion of man page

2025-01-16 Thread Wiley Young
Unicode, of course. Good point. Well, however an amendment might occur, "Each character in the expanded value of parameter is tested against pattern" to my ear reads as referring to alphabetic characters, as per sentence one, however they may appear in binary. It does also make some sense that a P

Suggestion of wording for portion of man page

2025-01-16 Thread Wiley Young
In Parameter Expansions / Case Modification: [S1] The first sentence reads, "alphabetic characters," which can imply that wherever else in the paragraph the word "characters" is used, that the intended meaning is "alphabetic characters," which is not the case. It can be read as something like a