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doc/lispref/searching.texi reference to octal code `0377' correct?

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6283: closed (doc/lispref/searching.texi reference to octal
 code `0377' correct?)
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:31:02 +0000

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From: MON KEY <monkey <at> sandpframing.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: doc/lispref/searching.texi reference to octal code `0377' correct?
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 13:28:16 -0400

In doc/lispref/searching.texi is the following reference to octal code
`0377' correct?

,----
| You cannot always match all non-@acronym{ASCII} characters with the
| regular expression @code{"[\200-\377]"}.  This works when searching a
| unibyte buffer or string (@pxref{Text Representations}), but not in a
| multibyte buffer or string, because many non-@acronym{ASCII}
| characters have codes above octal 0377.  {....}
`---- :FILE doc/lispref/searching.texi  (info "(elisp)Regexp Special")

Shouldn't that be:

"characters have codes above octal #o377"

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From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: MON KEY <monkey <at> sandpframing.com>
Cc: 6283-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6283: doc/lispref/searching.texi reference to octal code
	`0377' correct?
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:30:00 -0400

The manual discussion about how *not* to match non-ascii characters is
silly.  Instead of discussing the bad ways to match non-ascii
characters, I added a note about how to do it properly.

Since the text in question is now deleted, I am closing this bug.

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