[144426] trunk/doc-new/guide/xml/portfile-tcl.xml

[David Strubbe]

Oops and thanks for the further clarifications. I have just updated it.

David

On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 5:02 PM, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:

> > Revision: 144426
> >           https://trac.macports.org/changeset/144426
> > Author:   dstrubbe at macports.org
> > Date:     2016-01-08 12:16:33 -0800 (Fri, 08 Jan 2016)
> > Log Message:
> > -----------
> > doc-new: Add comments on locale in reinplace.
> >
> > Modified Paths:
> > --------------
> >     trunk/doc-new/guide/xml/portfile-tcl.xml
> >
> > Modified: trunk/doc-new/guide/xml/portfile-tcl.xml
> > ===================================================================
> > --- trunk/doc-new/guide/xml/portfile-tcl.xml  2016-01-08 19:39:53 UTC
> (rev 144425)
> > +++ trunk/doc-new/guide/xml/portfile-tcl.xml  2016-01-08 20:16:33 UTC
> (rev 144426)
> > @@ -275,7 +275,9 @@
> >                the command with the replacement text, in all files
> >                specified.</para>
> >
> > -              <para>Use -locale to set the locale</para>
> > +              <para>Use -locale to set the locale. For example,
> <code>locale -C</code>
> > +           if a non-ASCII file is being modified (which may otherwise
> give the error
> > +           "sed: RE error: illegal byte sequence").</para>
>
> Setting a locale is not needed for all non-ASCII files, just non-UTF-8
> ones (as the default locale is "en_US.UTF-8"). It may also be worth
> mentioning that using "C" will only allow ASCII characters to be
> processed correctly by the reinplace, so if you need it to work on
> non-ASCII characters you need to set a locale with the correct charset
> for the file, e.g. "en_US.ISO8859-1".
>
> Also, it should be "-locale C" not "locale -C".
>
> - Josh
>
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