[Emacs-bug-tracker] bug#6283: closed (doc/lispref/searching.texi reference to octal code `0377' correct?)

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code `0377' correct?
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> doc/lispref/searching.texi reference to octal code `0377' correct?
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> Thu, 27 May 2010 13:28:16 -0400
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> In doc/lispref/searching.texi is the following reference to octal code
> `0377' correct?
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> | You cannot always match all address@hidden characters with the
> | regular expression @code{"[\200-\377]"}.  This works when searching a
> | unibyte buffer or string (@pxref{Text Representations}), but not in a
> | multibyte buffer or string, because many address@hidden
> | characters have codes above octal 0377.  {....}
> `---- :FILE doc/lispref/searching.texi  (info "(elisp)Regexp Special")
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> Shouldn't that be:
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> "characters have codes above octal #o377"
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> Re: bug#6283: doc/lispref/searching.texi reference to octal code	`0377' correct?
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2.50 (gnu/linux)
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> The manual discussion about how *not* to match non-ascii characters is
> silly.  Instead of discussing the bad ways to match non-ascii
> characters, I added a note about how to do it properly.
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> Since the text in question is now deleted, I am closing this bug.
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