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diff --git a/doc/gawktexi.in b/doc/gawktexi.in index 202f47f6..14e20b7a 100644 --- a/doc/gawktexi.in +++ b/doc/gawktexi.in @@ -6199,17 +6199,14 @@ a program case insensitive without having to edit it. @c @cindex ISO 8859-1 @c @cindex ISO Latin-1 -In multibyte locales, -the equivalences between upper- -and lowercase characters are tested based on the wide-character values of -the locale's character set. -Otherwise, the characters are tested based -on the ISO-8859-1 (ISO Latin-1) -character set. This character set is a superset of the traditional 128 -ASCII characters, which also provides a number of characters suitable -for use with European languages.@footnote{If you don't understand this, -don't worry about it; it just means that @command{gawk} does -the right thing.} +In multibyte locales, the equivalences between upper- and lowercase +characters are tested based on the wide-character values of the locale's +character set. Prior to @value{PVERSION} 5.0, single-byte characters were +tested based on the ISO-8859-1 (ISO Latin-1) character set. However, as +of @value{PVERSION} 5.0, single-byte characters are also tested based on +the values of the locale's character set.@footnote{If you don't understand +this, don't worry about it; it just means that @command{gawk} does the +right thing.} The value of @code{IGNORECASE} has no effect if @command{gawk} is in compatibility mode (@pxref{Options}). |