[PATCH] D68016: [docs][llvm-strings] Clarify "printable character" wording
James Henderson via Phabricator via llvm-commits
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Wed Sep 25 03:55:38 PDT 2019
jhenderson created this revision.
jhenderson added reviewers: MaskRay, rupprecht.
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The --bytes option uses the phrase "printable ASCII characters", but the description section used simply "printable characters". To avoid any confusion about locale impacts etc, this change adopts the formers phrasing in both places. It also fixes a minor grammar issue in the description.
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https://reviews.llvm.org/D68016
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llvm/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-strings.rst
Index: llvm/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-strings.rst
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--- llvm/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-strings.rst
+++ llvm/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-strings.rst
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@
:program:`llvm-strings` is a tool intended as a drop-in replacement for GNU's
:program:`strings`, which looks for printable strings in files and writes them
to the standard output stream. A printable string is any sequence of four (by
-default) or more printable characters. The end of the file, or any other byte
-terminates the current sequence.
+default) or more printable ASCII characters. The end of the file, or any other
+byte, terminates the current sequence.
:program:`llvm-strings` looks for strings in each ``input`` file specified.
Unlike GNU :program:`strings` it looks in the entire input file, regardless of
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