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| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> | 2006-06-16 15:19:06 +0000 |
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| committer | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> | 2006-06-16 15:19:06 +0000 |
| commit | 11bfb6938ac99f4c2286432b9b187993347e4130 (patch) | |
| tree | 6917eac90e184ab4504f61022af6a351918bddd2 | |
| parent | 76f008da70bce146ca1827bd68f9339f5d1b3004 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-11bfb6938ac99f4c2286432b9b187993347e4130.tar.gz | |
(Character Type): Clarify prev. change.
(Non-ASCII in Strings): Mention \u and \U.
| -rw-r--r-- | lispref/objects.texi | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lispref/objects.texi b/lispref/objects.texi index 688fd0be398..b721809d18b 100644 --- a/lispref/objects.texi +++ b/lispref/objects.texi @@ -440,9 +440,9 @@ different syntax for specifying characters with code points above Unicode code point is @samp{U+@var{nnnnnn}}, 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 @@ this produces a unibyte string. However, using any hex escape in a 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. |