+2012-07-09 Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>
+
+ [BZ #14336]
+ * manual/charset.texi (Extended Char Intro): Word use fix, "operating
+ system".
+ * manual/message.texi (The Uniforum approach): Likewise.
+ * manual/charset.texi (Extended Char Intro): Spelling fix, "affected".
+ (glibc iconv Implementation): Likewise.
+
2012-07-09 Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
[BZ #14337]
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
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.
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
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
Sun Microsystems tried to standardize a different approach to message
translation in the Uniforum group. There never was a real standard
-defined but still the interface was used in Sun's operation systems.
+defined but still the interface was used in Sun's operating systems.
Since this approach fits better in the development process of free
software it is also used throughout the GNU project and the GNU
@file{gettext} package provides support for this outside @theglibc{}.