GNU bug report logs - #6576
documentation `string-to-char' is incorrect

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

Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 21:35:01 UTC

Severity: minor

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 6576 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: MON KEY <monkey <at> sandpframing.com>, 6576 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6576: documentation `string-to-char' is incorrect
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 10:40:00 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>   "Return the Unicode codepoint of the first character of STRING.

This is not correct.  The value is just the internal encoding of the
character.  It's identical to (aref STRING 0) except that it returns 0
for the empty string.

>   Note: eight-bit characters are returned as single-byte values in the
>   range 160 to 255, inclusive."

That depends on the multibyteness of the string.

Andreas.

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