libgda r3076 - in trunk: . doc/C/tmpl

[murrayc svn gnome org]

Author: murrayc
Date: Fri Mar 14 07:29:00 2008
New Revision: 3076
URL: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/libgda?rev=3076&view=rev

Log:
2008-03-14  Murray Cumming  <murrayc murrayc com>

* doc/C/tmpl/gda-data-handler.sgml: Improved the text of this 
documentation.

Modified:
   trunk/ChangeLog
   trunk/doc/C/tmpl/gda-data-handler.sgml

Modified: trunk/doc/C/tmpl/gda-data-handler.sgml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/doc/C/tmpl/gda-data-handler.sgml	(original)
+++ trunk/doc/C/tmpl/gda-data-handler.sgml	Fri Mar 14 07:29:00 2008
@@ -14,8 +14,9 @@
 <para>
 The #GdaDataHandler object can convert a #GValue to and from both SQL and 'STR'. The SQL representation of a value is 
 the actual string which would be used in an SQL statement (for example a string's SQL representation is surrounded by 
-quotes such as 'that\'s a string'). The 'STR' representation is a user friendly representation of a value (and the
-previous example would simply be: that's a string).
+quotes such as 'that\'s a string'). The 'STR' representation is a human-readable representation of a value appropriate 
+for the user's current locale. The 'STR' respresentation of a string is simply the original string without quotes but 
+a numerical value or date, for instance, will be formatted according to the user's current locale.
 </para>
 <para>
 Only one object which implements this interface is needed for any given data type, and it mainly contains some