GNU bug report logs - #7780
elisp manual regex section on multi-byte char incorrect

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From: Xah Lee <xahlee <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: elisp manual regex section on multi-byte char incorrect
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 13:23:50 -0800

in elisp doc for emacs 23.2, section on regex, it has a section that 
talks about multibyte chars.

(elisp) Regexp Special

Quote:

The beginning and end of a range of multibyte characters must be in the 
same character set (*note Character Sets::).  Thus, `"[\x8e0-\x97c]"' is 
invalid because ...

this info seems outdated.

Thanks for Eli Zaretskii for confirmation.

 Xah Lee

Message #8 received at 7780 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: xahlee <at> gmail.com
Cc: 7780 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7780: elisp manual regex section on multi-byte char incorrect
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 20:13:05 -0500

Xah Lee <xahlee <at> gmail.com> writes:

> in elisp doc for emacs 23.2, section on regex, it has a section that
> talks about multibyte chars.
>
> (elisp) Regexp Special
>
> Quote:
>
> The beginning and end of a range of multibyte characters must be in
> the same character set (*note Character Sets::).  Thus,
> "[\x8e0-\x97c]"' is invalid because ...
>
> this info seems outdated.
>
> Thanks for Eli Zaretskii for confirmation.

This paragraph is indeed not necessary anymore.  I've removed it in the
emacs-23 branch.  Thanks for the pointer.

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