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27.0.50; text-char-description examples fail

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: 32742 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32742: 27.0.50; text-char-description examples fail
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2018 05:36:04 +0300

> From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
> Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2018 01:44:36 +0300
> 
> The second and third example in (info "(elisp) Describing Characters")
> fail when evaluated:
> 
>           (text-char-description ?\M-m)
> 
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument characterp 134217837)
>   text-char-description(134217837)
>   eval((text-char-description 134217837) nil)
>   elisp--eval-last-sexp(nil)
>   eval-last-sexp(nil)
>   funcall-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil)
>   call-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil nil)
>   command-execute(eval-last-sexp)
> 
>           (text-char-description ?\C-\M-m)
> 
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument characterp 134217741)
>   text-char-description(134217741)
>   eval((text-char-description 134217741) nil)
>   elisp--eval-last-sexp(nil)
>   eval-last-sexp(nil)
>   funcall-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil)
>   call-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil nil)
>   command-execute(eval-last-sexp)
> 
> Not sure if there is a bug in the implementation of text-char-description,
> or its documentation was not updated after some implementation changes.

It's a documentation bug, see bug#32562.

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