Subject: Re: bug#28538: 25.3; elisp reference, 25.3: node 2.3.3.4 Meta-character syntax
From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
To: Louis-Guillaume Gagnon <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 17:36:23 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

On Sep 21 2017, Louis-Guillaume Gagnon <[email-masked]> wrote:

> In GNU Emacs 25.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.19)
>
> In the "GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual", at node 2.3.3.4
> "Meta-character syntax", in the first paragraph, the sentence:
>
> "The integer that represents such a character has the 2**27 bit set"
>
> should read:
>
> "The integer that represents such a character has the 2**7 bit set"
>
> as indicated in the second paragraph of the node.

No, 2^27 is correct for characters in general.  The latter is only
relevant for ASCII characters that are part of a string.

Andreas.

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