+2001-10-11 Matthias Clasen <matthiasc@poet.de>
+
+ * glib/tmpl/patterns.sgml, glib/tmpl/shell.sgml: Updates.
+
2001-10-05 Matthias Clasen <matthiasc@poet.de>
* glib/tmpl/hooks.sgml: Document G_HOOK_FLAG_USER_SHIFT.
against a pattern containing '*' and '?' wildcards with similar semantics
as the standard <function>glob()</function> function: '*' matches an
arbitrary, possibly empty, string, '?' matches an arbitrary character.
+</para>
+<para>
Note that in contrast to <function>glob()</function>, the '/' character
-<emphasis>can</emphasis> be matched by the wildcards.
+<emphasis>can</emphasis> be matched by the wildcards, there are no
+'[...]' character ranges and '*', '?' and '[' can <emphasis>not</emphasis>
+be escaped to include them literally in a pattern.
</para>
<para>
-There is no way to include literal '*' or '?' characters in a pattern.
+The pattern matcher is restricted to ASCII and will not work correctly with
+multibyte UTF-8 characters in the pattern or in the string to match.
</para>
<para>
When multiple string must be matched against the same pattern, it