From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: monkey@sandpframing.com, 6576@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6576: documentation `string-to-char' is incorrect
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:31:27 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <834ogb8txc.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m34ogb1y8v.fsf@hase.home>
> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
> Cc: MON KEY <monkey@sandpframing.com>, 6576@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 10:40:00 +0200
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@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.
Which is Unicode, AFAIK. The note takes care of the extension that
is specific to Emacs. If there are other extensions that I forgot, we
can add more notes.
> It's identical to (aref STRING 0)
I don't think talking about `(aref STRING 0)' in a doc string is a
good idea. Only people who know quite a lot about the internal
representation and what aref does in this case will understand such a
documentation.
> except that it returns 0 for the empty string
This fact should probably be mentioned in the doc 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.
Eight-bit characters are defined as such only in multibyte strings.
But I think the note is correct for unibyte strings as well, because
they by definition include raw bytes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-07 10:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-06 21:34 bug#6576: documentation `string-to-char' is incorrect MON KEY
2010-07-07 7:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-07 8:40 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-07-07 10:31 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2010-07-07 12:16 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-07-07 14:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-07 15:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-13 23:50 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-14 2:13 ` Chong Yidong
2011-07-14 13:02 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-14 3:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-14 13:00 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-14 13:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-14 14:06 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-14 15:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-14 16:12 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-14 19:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-14 19:39 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-15 19:06 ` MON KEY
2011-07-21 18:38 ` Chong Yidong
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