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29.1; "\x0e0" is a multibyte string

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From: Christopher Yeleighton <giecrilj <at> stegny.2a.pl>
To: 68751 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#68751: Acknowledgement (29.1; "\x0e0" is a multibyte string)
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2024 06:46:36 +0000

Info (elisp) Non-ASCII in Strings says:

> If a string constant contains hexadecimal or octal escape sequences, 
and these
> escape sequences all specify unibyte characters (i.e., less than 256),
> and there are no other literal non-ASCII characters or Unicode-style
> escape sequences in the string, then Emacs automatically assumes that it
> is a unibyte string.

I believe it should say:

| (i.e., less than 256 and octal or written with 2 hexadecimal digits),

and additionally

| Unibyte characters embedded in multibyte string constants evaluate to 
private character codes,
| e.g. "\x0a0\xa0" equals "\x0a0\x3fffa0".

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