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diff --git a/doc/gawktexi.in b/doc/gawktexi.in index 93139a04..5d599d5e 100644 --- a/doc/gawktexi.in +++ b/doc/gawktexi.in @@ -8641,6 +8641,8 @@ and then to print the multibyte encoding of that character. Similarly, when printing a numeric value, @command{gawk} allows the value to be within the numeric range of values that can be held in a wide character. +If the conversion to multibyte encoding fails, @command{gawk} +uses the low eight bits of the value as the character to print. Other @command{awk} versions generally restrict themselves to printing the first byte of a string or to numeric values within the range of @@ -30987,8 +30989,8 @@ need to test for a @code{NULL} value. @command{gawk} sets @code{*errcode} to zero, so there is no need to set it unless an error occurs. If an error does occur, the function should return @code{EOF} and set -@code{*errcode} to a non-zero value. In that case, if @code{*errcode} -does not equal @minus{}1, @command{gawk} automatically updates +@code{*errcode} to a value greater than zero. In that case, if @code{*errcode} +does not equal zero, @command{gawk} automatically updates the @code{ERRNO} variable based on the value of @code{*errcode}. (In general, setting @samp{*errcode = errno} should do the right thing.) |