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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: MON KEY <monkey@sandpframing.com>
Cc: 6576@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6576: documentation `string-to-char' is incorrect
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 10:12:30 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83630r934x.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTil7GhkIvUBRZ1QawHAe7BiT16fJTXp4PphN1dke@mail.gmail.com>

> Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 17:34:41 -0400
> From: MON KEY <monkey@sandpframing.com>
> Cc: 
> 
> First sentence of doc string for `string-to-char' is incorrect.
> 
> ,---- (documentation 'string-to-char )
> | "Convert arg STRING to a character, the first character of that
> | string.  A multibyte character is handled correctly.
> |
> | (fn STRING)"
> `----
> 
> Should be something more like:
> 
>   "Return decimal integer value of first character in STRING."

The "decimal" thing has no place here, because we are not talking
about the printed representation of that integer.

I would suggest the following, which also takes care of the second
sentence in the current doc string:

  "Return the Unicode codepoint of the first character of STRING.
  Note: eight-bit characters are returned as single-byte values in the
  range 160 to 255, inclusive."





  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-07  7:12 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 [this message]
2010-07-07  8:40   ` Andreas Schwab
2010-07-07 10:31     ` Eli Zaretskii
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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