Subject: bug#564 closed by Chong Yidong <[email-masked]> (23.0.60; Elisp manual node Character Codes)

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>From [email-masked] Wed Oct 22 12:38:23 2008
From: Chong Yidong <[email-masked]>
To: "Drew Adams" <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Subject: 23.0.60; Elisp manual node Character Codes
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:38:19 -0400

> This node uses `char-valid-p' and refers to generic characters, but
> the byte-compiler now says that `char-valid-p' is obsolete and generic
> characters no longer exist.

Fixed, thanks.

>From [email-masked] Tue Jul 15 10:19:18 2008
From: "Drew Adams" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Subject: 23.0.60; Elisp manual node Character Codes
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:16:16 -0700

This node uses `char-valid-p' and refers to generic characters, but
the byte-compiler now says that `char-valid-p' is obsolete and generic
characters no longer exist.
 
Also, the NEWS description of the change eliminating generic characters
is not clear to me, probably because I'm not clear on what generic
characters are (were). ;-) I wonder if Emacs Lisp users of more than
one Emacs release couldn't use a little more explanation of what
generic chars were, why they are no longer used, and what takes their
place today (what is now used for the purpose they used to serve).

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 of 2008-06-29 on LENNART-69DE564
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