# HG changeset patch # User Eli Zaretskii # Date 1225557370 0 # Node ID 1442c83df0c9d9387f79c7865ed8500f57658945 # Parent a52363111305b09264c6c9d92e1cef06ec4444f4 *** empty log message *** diff -r a52363111305 -r 1442c83df0c9 etc/NEWS --- a/etc/NEWS Sat Nov 01 16:33:29 2008 +0000 +++ b/etc/NEWS Sat Nov 01 16:36:10 2008 +0000 @@ -1347,6 +1347,7 @@ ** Character code, representation, and charset changes. ++++ The character code space is now 0x0..0x3FFFFF with no gap. Characters of code 0x0..0x10FFFF are Unicode characters of the same code points. Characters of code 0x3FFF80..0x3FFFFF are raw 8-bit bytes. @@ -1354,6 +1355,7 @@ +++ Generic characters no longer exist. ++++ In buffers and strings, characters are represented by UTF-8 byte sequences in a multibyte buffer/string.