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@@ -95,7 +95,8 @@
       <p>The category entries are references to the standard used when
 	writing the given section.  The standard refs should have
 	quotes around them, and should not use the &lt;U#&gt;
-	notation.  They should normally look like this:</p>
+	notation.  They should normally look something like this:</p>
+
       <blockquote><pre>
 category  "i18n:1997";LC_IDENTIFICATION
 	</pre></blockquote>
@@ -103,8 +104,11 @@ category  "i18n:1997";LC_IDENTIFICATION
     <h2>LC_MESSAGES</h2>
 
       <p>Then yesexpr and noexpr entries should have the form
-	<tt>^[yYnN&lt;extra&gt;]</tt>, without 0 and 1 and without
-	trailing "<tt>.*</tt>".</p>
+	<tt>^[yY&lt;extra&gt;]</tt> and <tt>^[nN&lt;extra&gt;]</tt>,
+	without 0 and 1 and without trailing "<tt>.*</tt>".  The
+	reason is to make sure the expressions have the same form as
+	the expressions used in the C/POSIX locale (<tt>^[yY]</tt> and
+	<tt>^[nN]</tt>).</p>
 
     <h2>Standard documents and specifications</h2>
 
@@ -143,7 +147,7 @@ category  "i18n:1997";LC_IDENTIFICATION
     <address><a href="mailto:pere@hungry.com">Petter Reinholdtsen</a></address>
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