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[Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/lispref/objects.texi,v
From: |
Richard M. Stallman |
Subject: |
[Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/lispref/objects.texi,v |
Date: |
Fri, 16 Jun 2006 15:19:06 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /cvsroot/emacs
Module name: emacs
Changes by: Richard M. Stallman <rms> 06/06/16 15:19:06
Index: objects.texi
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RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/lispref/objects.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.54
retrieving revision 1.55
diff -u -b -r1.54 -r1.55
--- objects.texi 9 Jun 2006 18:11:21 -0000 1.54
+++ objects.texi 16 Jun 2006 15:19:06 -0000 1.55
@@ -440,9 +440,9 @@
Unicode code point is @address@hidden, if such a character
is supported by Emacs.
- Unlike in some other programming languages, in Emacs Lisp this
-syntax is available for character literals, and (see later) in
-strings, but not elsewhere.
+ This peculiar and inconvenient syntax was adopted for compatibility
+with other programming languages. Unlike some other languages, Emacs
+Lisp supports this syntax in only character literals and strings.
@cindex @samp{\} in character constant
@cindex backslash in character constant
@@ -1013,6 +1013,9 @@
string (even for an @acronym{ASCII} character) forces the string to be
multibyte.
+ You can also specify characters in a string by their numeric values
+in Unicode, using @samp{\u} and @samp{\U} (@pxref{Character Type}).
+
@xref{Text Representations}, for more information about the two
text representations.