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Improve g_strerror and g_strsignal docs. Bug #438293.

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2007-05-14  Christian Persch  <chpe@gnome.org>

	* docs/reference/glib/tmpl/string_utils.sgml: Improve g_strerror and
	g_strsignal docs. Bug #438293.

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2007-05-14 Christian Persch <chpe@gnome.org>
* docs/reference/glib/tmpl/string_utils.sgml: Improve g_strerror and
g_strsignal docs. Bug #438293.
2007-05-13 Tor Lillqvist <tml@novell.com>
* glib/gwin32.h: Drop the pipe() macro. Defining macros outside of

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<!-- ##### FUNCTION g_strerror ##### -->
<para>
Returns a string corresponding to the given error code, e.g. "no such process".
This function is included since not all platforms support the
You should use this function in preference to strerror(), because it returns a
string in UTF-8 encoding, and since not all platforms support the
strerror() function.
</para>
@errnum: the system error number. See the standard C %errno
documentation.
@Returns: a string describing the error code.
@Returns: a UTF-8 string describing the error code.
If the error code is unknown, it returns "unknown error (&lt;code&gt;)".
The string can only be used until the next call to g_strerror().
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<!-- ##### FUNCTION g_strsignal ##### -->
<para>
Returns a string describing the given signal, e.g. "Segmentation fault".
This function is included since not all platforms support the
You should use this function in preference to strsignal(), because it returns a
string in UTF-8 encoding, and since not all platforms support the
strsignal() function.
</para>
@signum: the signal number. See the <literal>signal</literal>
documentation.
@Returns: a string describing the signal.
@Returns: a UTF-8 string describing the signal.
If the signal is unknown, it returns "unknown signal (&lt;signum&gt;)".
The string can only be used until the next call to g_strsignal().