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manual: adjust grammar 

* manual/charset.texi: Adjust grammar.
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2010-02-22 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
* manual/charset.texi: Adjust grammar.
* manual/errno.texi (Error Messages): Fix doubled-words and typos.
* manual/charset.texi (Selecting the Conversion): Likewise.
* manual/getopt.texi (Getopt Long Options): Likewise.

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@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ We already said above that the currently selected locale for the
by the functions we are about to describe. Each locale uses its own
character set (given as an argument to @code{localedef}) and this is the
one assumed as the external multibyte encoding. The wide character
set always is UCS-4, at least on GNU systems.
set is always UCS-4, at least on GNU systems.
A characteristic of each multibyte character set is the maximum number
of bytes that can be necessary to represent one character. This
@ -577,8 +577,8 @@ The @code{btowc} function was introduced in @w{Amendment 1} to @w{ISO C90}
and is declared in @file{wchar.h}.
@end deftypefun
Despite the limitation that the single byte value always is interpreted
in the initial state this function is actually useful most of the time.
Despite the limitation that the single byte value is always interpreted
in the initial state, this function is actually useful most of the time.
Most characters are either entirely single-byte character sets or they
are extension to ASCII. But then it is possible to write code like this
(not that this specific example is very useful):
@ -607,10 +607,10 @@ that there is no guarantee that one can perform this kind of arithmetic
on the character of the character set used for @code{wchar_t}
representation. In other situations the bytes are not constant at
compile time and so the compiler cannot do the work. In situations like
this it is necessary @code{btowc}.
this, using @code{btowc} is required.
@noindent
There also is a function for the conversion in the other direction.
There is also a function for the conversion in the other direction.
@comment wchar.h
@comment ISO