Subject: Re: bug#7780: elisp manual regex section on multi-byte char incorrect

From: Chong Yidong <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 20:13:05 -0500

Xah Lee <[email-masked]> 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 this info seems outdated.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.