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| author | Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu> | 2006-06-27 15:06:36 +0000 |
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| committer | Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu> | 2006-06-27 15:06:36 +0000 |
| commit | 556b89447234f15d1784a23dadbfe429464463a8 (patch) | |
| tree | d5b94bbdde7b399bb0ffdf03a01f3e8398ee0afa /lispref/objects.texi | |
| parent | 476e9367ec1f440aa23904b7bc482ea4a3b8041c (diff) | |
| parent | 08b1eb21d5a3f935eb245acf0844a19acc42f57c (diff) | |
| download | emacs-556b89447234f15d1784a23dadbfe429464463a8.tar.gz | |
Merged from emacs@sv.gnu.org
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lispref/objects.texi b/lispref/objects.texi index 688fd0be398..ec4f30076c4 100644 --- a/lispref/objects.texi +++ b/lispref/objects.texi @@ -438,11 +438,12 @@ the Unicode code point @samp{U+@var{nnnn}}. There is a slightly different syntax for specifying characters with code points above @code{#xFFFF}; @code{\U00@var{nnnnnn}} represents the character whose Unicode code point is @samp{U+@var{nnnnnn}}, if such a character -is supported by Emacs. +is supported by Emacs. If the corresponding character is not +supported, Emacs signals an error. - 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 +1014,9 @@ 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. |