Subject: Re: bug#32562: 26; `read-char(-exclusive)' and `characterp'

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 16:29:49 +0200

On Sep 10 2018, Drew Adams <[email-masked]> wrote:

> I said "reads a `characterp' character", meaning reads an event
> that satisfies `characterp'. Apparently the functions whose names
> or doc suggests that they read a character do not necessarily
> return something that satisfies `characterp'.

A character with modifiers doesn't satisfy characterp, but it is still a
character (which read-char can return).

Andreas.

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