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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2023-03-16 22:05:07 +0200
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2023-03-16 22:05:07 +0200
commita2222b9a9bfa039d66f836f06762ddea1544df11 (patch)
tree214a258892baf90a27fbb0a79b36a0a14eea92db
parent5cf1de683b2414927e521c34daeee460fb7649f5 (diff)
downloademacs-a2222b9a9bfa039d66f836f06762ddea1544df11.tar.gz
; Minor wording fix in ELisp reference manual
* doc/lispref/objects.texi (General Escape Syntax): More accurate wording. Avoid non-ASCII characters in Texinfo. (Bug#62224)
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/doc/lispref/objects.texi b/doc/lispref/objects.texi
index 2fe7e6db560..ad079e0d63a 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/objects.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/objects.texi
@@ -466,19 +466,20 @@ You can specify characters by their Unicode values.
@code{?\u@var{xxxx}} and @code{?\U@var{xxxxxxxx}} represent code
points @var{xxxx} and @var{xxxxxxxx}, respectively, where each @var{x}
is a single hexadecimal digit. For example, @code{?\N@{U+E0@}},
-@code{?\u00e0} and @code{?\U000000E0} are all equivalent to @code{?à}
-and to @samp{?\N@{LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH GRAVE@}}. The Unicode
-Standard defines code points only up to @samp{U+@var{10ffff}}, so if
-you specify a code point higher than that, Emacs signals an error.
+@code{?\u00e0} and @code{?\U000000E0} are all equivalent to
+@code{?@`a} and to @samp{?\N@{LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH GRAVE@}}. The
+Unicode Standard defines code points only up to @samp{U+@var{10ffff}},
+so if you specify a code point higher than that, Emacs signals an
+error.
@item
You can specify characters by their hexadecimal character
codes. A hexadecimal escape sequence consists of a backslash,
@samp{x}, and the hexadecimal character code. Thus, @samp{?\x41} is
the character @kbd{A}, @samp{?\x1} is the character @kbd{C-a}, and
-@code{?\xe0} is the character @kbd{à} (@kbd{a} with grave accent).
-You can use any number of hex digits, so you can represent any
-character code in this way.
+@code{?\xe0} is the character @kbd{@`a} (@kbd{a} with grave accent).
+You can use one or more hex digits after @samp{x}, so you can
+represent any character code in this way.
@item
@cindex octal character code