Explain why yesexpr and noexpr should have a given content.

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       <p>Then yesexpr and noexpr entries should have the form
        <tt>^[yY&lt;extra&gt;]</tt> and <tt>^[nN&lt;extra&gt;]</tt>,
-       without 0 and 1 and without trailing "<tt>.*</tt>".</p>
+       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>
 
@@ -144,7 +147,7 @@ category  "i18n:1997";LC_IDENTIFICATION
     <address><a href="mailto:pere@hungry.com">Petter Reinholdtsen</a></address>
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