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Re: strftime man page is garbled
- From: Jon TURNEY <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>
- To: Wayne Pollock <pollock at acm dot org>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2015 12:56:21 +0100
- Subject: Re: strftime man page is garbled
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- References: <556FA760 dot 7040501 at acm dot org>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On 04/06/2015 02:18, Wayne Pollock wrote:
The description section of the strftime man page is
garbled. The first paragraph shows as this:
=============================
into a null-terminated string, starting at S and occupying no more than
MAXSIZE characters.
You control the format of the output using the string at FORMAT.
literally into the formatted string, and
time conversion specifications. Time conversion specifications are two- and
three-character sequences beginâ
ning with ''%'' (use ''%%'' to include a percent sign in the output). Each
defined conversion specification
selects only the specified field(s) of calendar time data from '*TIMP', and
converts it to a string in one of
the following ways:
============================
In addition, none of the option letters show, only the
option descriptions. The info node at
"info libc timefns strftime" appears to be fine.
I have cygwin-doc version 1.7.35-1.
(I have a locale of C.UTF-8, if it matters.)
Thanks for reporting this issue.
I've uploaded a new cygwin-doc-2.0.3-1 package.
I've tweaked the script which generates these man pages from the newlib
.info files so it better handles lines starting with a single-quote, and
also fixing the mess which was being made of the SEE ALSO section.
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