Re: Errors in binutils man pages

[Alan Modra]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 05:33:34PM +0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> Man page: strings.1.po
> Issue: B<--output-separator> → B<--output-separator> I<sep_string>
> 
> "B<--output-separator>"

Fixed.

> Issue: The man page has no section "GNU Free Documentation License"
> 
> "Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under "
> "the terms of the \\s-1GNU\\s0 Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any 
> "
> "later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant "
> "Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts.  A copy "
> "of the license is included in the section entitled \\*(L\"\\s-1GNU\\s0 Free "
> "Documentation License\\*(R\"."

I see the license in my freshly generated man pages, so perhaps
someone already fixed this problem.

> Issue: mulibyte → multibyte
> 
> "Controls the display of \\s-1UTF-8\\s0 encoded mulibyte characters in "
> "strings.  The default (B<--unicode=default>) is to give them no special "
> "treatment, and instead rely upon the setting of the \\&B<--encoding> "
> "option.  The other values for this option automatically enable B<--"
> "encoding=S>."

Fixed.  Thanks for notifying us!

        * doc/binutils.texi: Fix typos.

diff --git a/binutils/doc/binutils.texi b/binutils/doc/binutils.texi
index 1f3e6c7bc85..9e98f878d25 100644
--- a/binutils/doc/binutils.texi
+++ b/binutils/doc/binutils.texi
@@ -1135,7 +1135,7 @@ Display only undefined symbols (those external to each 
object file).
 
 @item -U @var{[d|i|l|e|x|h]}
 @itemx --unicode=@var{[default|invalid|locale|escape|hex|highlight]}
-Controls the display of UTF-8 encoded mulibyte characters in strings.
+Controls the display of UTF-8 encoded multibyte characters in strings.
 The default (@option{--unicode=default}) is to give them no special
 treatment.  The @option{--unicode=locale} option displays the sequence
 in the current locale, which may or may not support them.  The options
@@ -2940,7 +2940,7 @@ user.
 
 @item -U @var{[d|i|l|e|x|h]}
 @itemx --unicode=@var{[default|invalid|locale|escape|hex|highlight]}
-Controls the display of UTF-8 encoded mulibyte characters in strings.
+Controls the display of UTF-8 encoded multibyte characters in strings.
 The default (@option{--unicode=default}) is to give them no special
 treatment.  The @option{--unicode=locale} option displays the sequence
 in the current locale, which may or may not support them.  The options
@@ -3233,7 +3233,7 @@ strings [@option{-afovV}] [@option{-}@var{min-len}]
         [@option{-}] [@option{--all}] [@option{--print-file-name}]
         [@option{-T} @var{bfdname}] [@option{--target=}@var{bfdname}]
         [@option{-w}] [@option{--include-all-whitespace}]
-        [@option{-s}] [@option{--output-separator}@var{sep_string}]
+        [@option{-s}] [@option{--output-separator} @var{sep_string}]
         [@option{--help}] [@option{--version}] @var{file}@dots{}
 @c man end
 @end smallexample
@@ -3328,7 +3328,7 @@ and @samp{b} apply to, for example, Unicode UTF-16/UCS-2 
encodings).
 
 @item -U @var{[d|i|l|e|x|h]}
 @itemx --unicode=@var{[default|invalid|locale|escape|hex|highlight]}
-Controls the display of UTF-8 encoded mulibyte characters in strings.
+Controls the display of UTF-8 encoded multibyte characters in strings.
 The default (@option{--unicode=default}) is to give them no special
 treatment, and instead rely upon the setting of the
 @option{--encoding} option.  The other values for this option

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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM