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	Rework libgrapheme(7) a bit - libgrapheme - unicode string library
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	commit 4a5b4abeec1b91986ec0258289abf79b6122531c
	parent fc73d06fed76dd7cde37d3704949d01391ea0032
	Author: Laslo Hunhold <[email protected]>
	Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2022 00:17:04 +0200

	Rework libgrapheme(7) a bit

	Add the information about the library being freestanding and fix
	wordings a bit. Reflect in the first paragraph what the library can do.

	Signed-off-by: Laslo Hunhold <[email protected]>

	Diffstat:
	M man/libgrapheme.sh \| 10 ++++++++--

	1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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	diff --git a/man/libgrapheme.sh b/man/libgrapheme.sh
	@@ -11,12 +11,14 @@ cat << EOF
	The
	.Nm
	library provides functions to properly handle Unicode strings according
	-to the Unicode specification.
	+to the Unicode specification in regard to character, word, sentence and
	+line segmentation and case detection and conversion.
	+.Pp
	Unicode strings are made up of user-perceived characters (so-called
	.Dq grapheme clusters ,
	see
	.Sx MOTIVATION )
	-that are made up of one or more Unicode codepoints, which in turn
	+that are composed of one or more Unicode codepoints, which in turn
	are encoded in one or more bytes in an encoding like UTF-8.
	.Pp
	There is a widespread misconception that it was enough to simply
	@@ -32,6 +34,10 @@ Despite this complicated multilevel structure of Unicode str…
	provides methods to work with them at the byte-level (i.e. UTF-8
	.Sq char
	arrays) while also offering codepoint-level methods.
	+Additionally, it is a
	+.Dq freestanding
	+library (see ISO/IEC 9899:1999 section 4.6) and thus does not depend on
	+a standard library. This makes it easy to use in bare-metal environments.
	.Pp
	Every documented function's manual page provides a self-contained
	example illustrating the possible usage.