commit cdaeb8c0b808cd3f708f2cefd62d767ee82144ef
parent 94fb8dc7588eb4ee563f5a4c888fcd65a8497834
Author: Laslo Hunhold <dev@frign.de>
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2020 18:21:10 +0200
Fix two small mistakes in libgrapheme.7
Thanks Silvan for reporting them and Greg for providing some
native speaker input!
Signed-off-by: Laslo Hunhold <dev@frign.de>
Diffstat:
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man/libgrapheme.7 b/man/libgrapheme.7
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ expanded since its first introduction (emojis, joiners, etc.). A sequence
this way and represents an abstract character is called a
.Dq grapheme cluster .
.Pp
-In many applications, it is necessary to count the number of
+In many applications it is necessary to count the number of
user-perceived characters, i.e. grapheme clusters, in a string. This is
pretty simple with ASCII-strings, where you just count the number of
bytes (as each byte is a code point and each code point is a grapheme
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ is continued between two code points. Libraries like ICU, which also
offer this functionality, are often bloated, not correct, difficult to
use or not statically linkable. The motivation behind
.Nm
-is to make grapheme cluster handling suck less and abide the UNIX
+is to make grapheme cluster handling suck less and abide by the UNIX
philosophy.
.Sh AUTHORS
.An Laslo Hunhold Aq Mt dev@frign.de
