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authorJan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>2014-08-03 07:11:12 +0200
committerJan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>2015-11-06 13:00:02 +0100
commitb938cb902c3b5bca807a94b277672c64d6767886 (patch)
tree267bd1d61268865fa405b3e5a3027041f7f3a183 /man/os-release.xml
parenta6bff4a7428b9539d85618e3c91fcb60be93f3fa (diff)
doc: correct punctuation and improve typography in documentation
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/man/os-release.xml b/man/os-release.xml
index d2e2598204..4557abc4a3 100644
--- a/man/os-release.xml
+++ b/man/os-release.xml
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
without implementing a shell compatible execution engine. Variable
assignment values must be enclosed in double or single quotes if
they include spaces, semicolons or other special characters
- outside of A-Z, a-z, 0-9. Shell special characters ("$", quotes,
+ outside of A–Z, a–z, 0–9. Shell special characters ("$", quotes,
backslash, backtick) must be escaped with backslashes, following
shell style. All strings should be in UTF-8 format, and
non-printable characters should not be used. It is not supported
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@
<term><varname>ID=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>A lower-case string (no spaces or other
- characters outside of 0-9, a-z, ".", "_" and "-") identifying
+ characters outside of 0–9, a–z, ".", "_" and "-") identifying
the operating system, excluding any version information and
suitable for processing by scripts or usage in generated
filenames. If not set, defaults to
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@
<term><varname>VERSION_ID=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>A lower-case string (mostly numeric, no spaces
- or other characters outside of 0-9, a-z, ".", "_" and "-")
+ or other characters outside of 0–9, a–z, ".", "_" and "-")
identifying the operating system version, excluding any OS
name information or release code name, and suitable for
processing by scripts or usage in generated filenames. This
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@
<listitem><para>
A lower-case string (no spaces or other characters outside of
- 0-9, a-z, ".", "_" and "-"), identifying a specific variant or
+ 0–9, a–z, ".", "_" and "-"), identifying a specific variant or
edition of the operating system. This may be interpreted by
other packages in order to determine a divergent default
configuration. This field is optional and may not be