GNU bug report logs - #6283
doc/lispref/searching.texi reference to octal code `0377' correct?

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: MON KEY <monkey <at> sandpframing.com>

Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 17:29:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #32 received at 6283 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: MON KEY <monkey <at> sandpframing.com>
Cc: 6283 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6283: doc/lispref/searching.texi reference to octal
	code	`0377' correct?
Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 21:49:53 +0300
> Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 01:35:41 -0400
> From: MON KEY <monkey <at> sandpframing.com>
> Cc: 6283 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > Again, this part of the manual is not about how Emacs represents
> > characters or reads them.  It's about their codes.
> 
> This is how I understood this portion of the manual.
> Maybe I'm misunderstanding something fundamental about this distinction.

A character and its codepoint are not the same thing.  If this
distinction is not clear, I suggest reading the Unicode Technical
Report #17 (http://unicode.org/reports/tr17/).

> >> 0377 doesn't have a character that I'm aware of.
> >
> > In Unicode, it's a codepoint of LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS.
> 
> I don't understand this.

I don't know how to express this more clearly.  Perhaps you could ask
specific questions.




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