[Emacs-diffs] emacs/doc/lispref objects.texi

[Chong Yidong]

CVSROOT:        /sources/emacs
Module name:    emacs
Changes by:     Chong Yidong <cyd>      09/02/27 01:44:02

Modified files:
        doc/lispref    : objects.texi 

Log message:
        (General Escape Syntax): Update explanation of unicode escape syntax.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/emacs/doc/lispref/objects.texi?cvsroot=emacs&r1=1.16&r2=1.17

Patches:
Index: objects.texi
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RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/doc/lispref/objects.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.16
retrieving revision 1.17
diff -u -b -r1.16 -r1.17
--- objects.texi        21 Feb 2009 13:45:20 -0000      1.16
+++ objects.texi        27 Feb 2009 01:44:02 -0000      1.17
@@ -346,18 +346,19 @@
 @subsubsection General Escape Syntax
 
   In addition to the specific escape sequences for special important
-control characters, Emacs provides general categories of escape syntax
-that you can use to specify non-ASCII text characters.
+control characters, Emacs provides several types of escape syntax that
+you can use to specify non-ASCII text characters.
 
 @cindex unicode character escape
-  For instance, you can specify characters by their Unicode values.
+  You can specify characters by their Unicode values.
 @address@hidden represents a character that maps to the Unicode
-code point @address@hidden  There is a slightly different syntax
-for specifying characters with code points above @code{#xFFFF};
address@hidden@var{nnnnnn}} represents the character whose Unicode code
-point is @address@hidden, if such a character is supported by
-Emacs.  If the corresponding character is not supported, Emacs signals
-an error.
+code point @address@hidden (by convention, Unicode code points are
+given in hexadecimal).  There is a slightly different syntax for
+specifying characters with code points higher than
address@hidden@var{ffff}}: @address@hidden represents the character
+whose code point is @address@hidden  The Unicode standard only
+defines code points up to @address@hidden, so if you specify a
+code point higher than that, Emacs signals an error.
 
   This peculiar and inconvenient syntax was adopted for compatibility
 with other programming languages.  Unlike some other languages, Emacs