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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: monkey@sandpframing.com, schwab@linux-m68k.org, 6576@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6576: documentation `string-to-char' is incorrect
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 18:59:45 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83mxggetu6.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3wrfl3qj9.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>

> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: schwab@linux-m68k.org,  monkey@sandpframing.com,  6576@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 16:06:34 +0200
> 
> >     A multibyte character is handled correctly.
> 
> I understand why it is there, because (presumably) in the olden times,
> this wasn't always true?
> 
> But I think that line can be deleted, too.

If you delete it, how would users know what does this function do with
unibyte strings?  What numerical value will it return when passed a
unibyte string?





  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-14 15:59 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
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 [this message]
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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