GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2002-7-24
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* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
-* localedef now can transliterate characters in strings which are not in
+* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
-* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation but eliminating
+* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
copying and buffer underflows. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
-* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX conforming
+* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
implementation of regex.
* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
Unicode 3.2.
-* Content of The LC_* and LANG environments in the CEN style is not recognized
- anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
+* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
+ not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
-* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the TLS
- ABI on some platforms. Changes by Ulrich Drepper.
- SH support by Kaz Kojima.
+* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
+ thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
+ Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
and EUC-JISX0213.