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@@ -33,9 +33,9 @@
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
 .\"	@(#)rune.3	8.2 (Berkeley) 12/11/93
-.\" $FreeBSD: src/lib/libc/locale/rune.3,v 1.10.2.6 2001/12/14 18:33:54 ru Exp $
+.\" $FreeBSD: src/lib/libc/locale/rune.3,v 1.22 2002/12/19 09:40:22 ru Exp $
 .\"
-.Dd December 11, 1993
+.Dd October 6, 2002
 .Dt RUNE 3
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -69,6 +69,25 @@
 .Ft int
 .Fn fputrune "rune_t rune" "FILE *stream"
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
+.Bf Em
+The
+.Bx 4.4
+.Dq rune
+functions have been deprecated in favour of the
+.Tn ISO
+C99 extended multibyte and wide character facilities
+and should not be used in new applications.
+.Ef
+Consider using
+.Xr setlocale 3 ,
+.Xr mbrtowc 3 ,
+.Xr wcrtomb 3 ,
+.Xr fgetwc 3 ,
+.Xr ungetwc 3 ,
+and
+.Xr fputwc 3
+instead.
+.Pp
 The
 .Fn setrunelocale
 controls the type of encoding used to represent runes as multibyte strings
@@ -215,18 +234,18 @@ The
 function returns one of the following values:
 .Bl -tag -width Er
 .It Er 0
+The
 .Fn setrunelocale
+function
 was successful.
-.It Bq Er EFAULT
+.It Bq Er EINVAL
+The
 .Fa locale
-was
-.Dv NULL .
+name was incorrect.
 .It Bq Er ENOENT
 The locale could not be found.
 .It Bq Er EFTYPE
 The file found was not a valid file.
-.It Bq Er EINVAL
-The encoding indicated by the locale was unknown.
 .El
 .Pp
 The
@@ -249,16 +268,8 @@ binary LC_CTYPE file for the locale
 .Xr mbrune 3 ,
 .Xr setlocale 3 ,
 .Xr euc 4 ,
-.Xr utf2 4
-.Sh NOTES
-The ANSI C type
-.Em wchar_t
-is the same as
-.Em rune_t .
-.Em Rune_t
-was chosen to accent the purposeful choice of not basing the
-system with the ANSI C
-primitives, which were, shall we say, less aesthetic.
+.Xr utf2 4 ,
+.Xr utf8 5
 .Sh HISTORY
 These functions first appeared in
 .Bx 4.4 .
@@ -266,12 +277,7 @@ These functions first appeared in
 The
 .Fn setrunelocale
 function and the other non-ANSI rune functions were inspired by
-.Sy "Plan 9 from Bell Labs"
-as a much more sane alternative to the ANSI multibyte and
-wide character support.
+.Sy "Plan 9 from Bell Labs" .
 .\"They were conceived at the San Diego 1993 Summer USENIX conference by
 .\"Paul Borman of Krystal Technologies, Keith Bostic of CSRG and Andrew Hume
 .\"of Bell Labs.
-.Pp
-All of the ANSI multibyte and wide character
-support functions are built using the rune functions.