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The variable `frame-alpha-lower-limit' defines a lower bound for the
opacity; the default is 20.

** Internationalization changes

*** The Emacs character set is now a superset of Unicode.
(It has about four times the code space, which should be plenty).

The internal encoding used for buffers and strings is now
Unicode-based and called `utf-8-emacs'.  This encoding is backwards
compatible with Unicode's UTF-8 encoding.  The internal encoding
previously used by Emacs, `emacs-mule', is still available.

During byte-compilation, Emacs 23 uses `utf-8-emacs' to write files.
As a result, byte-compiled files containing non-ASCII characters can't
be read by earlier versions of Emacs.  Files compiled by Emacs 20, 21,

temporary-file-directory instead.


* Lisp Changes in Emacs 23.1

** New coding system alias `emacs-internal'.

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** The new variable `generate-autoload-cookie' controls the magic comment
string used by `update-file-autoloads' to find autoloaded forms.  The
variable `generated-autoload-file' similarly controls the name of the
file where `update-file-autoloads' writes the calls to `autoload'.

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*** The variable `inhibit-changing-match-data', if non-nil, prevents
the search and match primitives from changing the match data.

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*** New functions `word-search-forward-lax' and `word-search-backward-lax'.
These are like `word-search-forward and `word-search-backward', except
that the end of the search string need not match a word boundary,
unless it ends in whitespace.

`canonical-combining-class', `bidi-class', `decomposition',
`decimal-digit-value', `digit-value', `numeric-value', `mirrored',
`old-name', `iso-10646-comment', `uppercase', `lowercase', and
`titlecase'.

*** The functions `modify-syntax-entry' and `modify-category-entry' now
accept a cons of characters as the first argument, and modify all
entries in that range of characters.

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The variable `frame-alpha-lower-limit' defines a lower bound for the
opacity; the default is 20.

** Internationalization changes
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*** The Emacs character set is now a superset of Unicode.
(It has about four times the code space, which should be plenty).

The internal encoding used for buffers and strings is now
Unicode-based and called `utf-8-emacs'.  This encoding is backwards
compatible with Unicode's UTF-8 encoding.  The encoding
`emacs-internal' is an alias for this.  The internal encoding
previously used by Emacs, `emacs-mule', is still available.

During byte-compilation, Emacs 23 uses `utf-8-emacs' to write files.
As a result, byte-compiled files containing non-ASCII characters can't
be read by earlier versions of Emacs.  Files compiled by Emacs 20, 21,

temporary-file-directory instead.


* Lisp Changes in Emacs 23.1

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** The new variable `generate-autoload-cookie' controls the magic comment
string used by `update-file-autoloads' to find autoloaded forms.  The
variable `generated-autoload-file' similarly controls the name of the
file where `update-file-autoloads' writes the calls to `autoload'.

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*** The variable `inhibit-changing-match-data', if non-nil, prevents
the search and match primitives from changing the match data.

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*** New functions `word-search-forward-lax' and `word-search-backward-lax'.
These are like `word-search-forward and `word-search-backward', except
that the end of the search string need not match a word boundary,
unless it ends in whitespace.

`canonical-combining-class', `bidi-class', `decomposition',
`decimal-digit-value', `digit-value', `numeric-value', `mirrored',
`old-name', `iso-10646-comment', `uppercase', `lowercase', and
`titlecase'.

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*** The functions `modify-syntax-entry' and `modify-category-entry' now
accept a cons of characters as the first argument, and modify all
entries in that range of characters.

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