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authorLars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>2011-07-14 01:48:35 +0200
committerLars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>2011-07-14 01:48:35 +0200
commit837c31f8306d5e21689e325807ef2fff4e5bae9e (patch)
tree52fa6fe6482b88e5881dd23a84467c67269d39f4 /src
parenta28e4607f0c5c5812a87dd816559d1601ed146ba (diff)
Fstring_to_char doc clarification
* editfns.c (Fstring_to_char): Clarify just what is returned (bug#6576). Text by Eli Zaretskii.
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
-rw-r--r--src/ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--src/editfns.c8
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index a045a7ddd2..36a7539b88 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2011-07-13 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
+
+ * editfns.c (Fstring_to_char): Clarify just what is returned
+ (bug#6576). Text by Eli Zaretskii.
+
2011-07-13 Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
* gnutls.c (init_gnutls_functions): Honor gnutls_log_level (bug#9059).
diff --git a/src/editfns.c b/src/editfns.c
index bb36d0dee7..6df4435275 100644
--- a/src/editfns.c
+++ b/src/editfns.c
@@ -194,8 +194,12 @@ DEFUN ("byte-to-string", Fbyte_to_string, Sbyte_to_string, 1, 1, 0,
}
DEFUN ("string-to-char", Fstring_to_char, Sstring_to_char, 1, 1, 0,
- doc: /* Convert arg STRING to a character, the first character of that string.
-A multibyte character is handled correctly. */)
+ doc: /* Return the first character in STRING.
+A multibyte character is handled correctly.
+The value returned is a Unicode codepoint if it is below #x110000 (in
+hex). Codepoints beyond that are Emacs extensions of Unicode. In
+particular, eight-bit characters are returned as codepoints in the
+range #x3FFF80 through #x3FFFFF, inclusive. */)
(register Lisp_Object string)
{
register Lisp_Object val;