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X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4864:20::329 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:242152 Archived-At: On Thu, 14 Nov 2019 at 06:35, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: > > On Nov 14, 2019, at 18:20, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > > It's neither, because characters are integers in Emacs, and a > > character is identical to its codepoint. > > How can I understand that ? > I mean, what part of the documentation, or the code, or anything, is there to help people grasp this notion ? (info "(elisp) String Basics") 4.1 String and Character Basics =============================== A character is a Lisp object which represents a single character of text. In Emacs Lisp, characters are simply integers; whether an integer is a character or not is determined only by how it is used. *Note Character Codes::, for details about character representation in Emacs.