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| -rw-r--r-- | src/ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/editfns.c | 8 |
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; |