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

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Package: emacs;

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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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: monkey <at> sandpframing.com, schwab <at> linux-m68k.org, 6576 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6576: documentation `string-to-char' is incorrect
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 16:06:34 +0200

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

> The original problem which triggered the report was this part, and
> this part only:
>
>     A multibyte character is handled correctly.

I understand why it is there, because (presumably) in the olden times,
this wasn't always true?

But I think that line can be deleted, too.  If the function returns the
first character, then it returns the first character...

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