bug#6576: documentation `string-to-char' is incorrect

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
> Cc: monkey@sandpframing.com,  6576@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:16:28 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
> >> Cc: MON KEY <monkey@sandpframing.com>,  6576@debbugs.gnu.org
> >> Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 10:40:00 +0200
> >> 
> >> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> >> 
> >> >   "Return the Unicode codepoint of the first character of STRING.
> >> 
> >> This is not correct.  The value is just the internal encoding of the
> >> character.
> >
> > Which is Unicode, AFAIK.
> 
> No, it is an extension of Unicode.  Eight-bit characters, for example,
> are not part of Unicode.

And that's why there's this note:

> >> >   Note: eight-bit characters are returned as single-byte values in the
> >> >   range 160 to 255, inclusive."
> >> 
> >> That depends on the multibyteness of the string.
> >
> > Eight-bit characters are defined as such only in multibyte strings.
> 
> That makes it even more incorrect.  For multibyte strings you'll get the
> internal encoding, which is not in the range 160 to 255.

Sounds like a bug, assuming it's true.