# HG changeset patch
# User Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
# Date 1065459585 0
# Node ID 814620b1c1afd3d92324c095be4bd7a486d48fff
# Parent  785941182067c2534bcbe932dac0e8a380ee5b7e
Don't mention preferred-coding-system.
make-char zeroes 8th bit of code args.

diff -r 785941182067 -r 814620b1c1af lispref/nonascii.texi
--- a/lispref/nonascii.texi	Mon Oct 06 16:52:24 2003 +0000
+++ b/lispref/nonascii.texi	Mon Oct 06 16:59:45 2003 +0000
@@ -325,9 +325,7 @@
 This function returns the charset property list of the character set
 @var{charset}.  Although @var{charset} is a symbol, this is not the same
 as the property list of that symbol.  Charset properties are used for
-special purposes within Emacs; for example,
-@code{preferred-coding-system} helps determine which coding system to
-use to encode characters in a charset.
+special purposes within Emacs.
 @end defun
 
 @node Chars and Bytes
@@ -401,6 +399,11 @@
 (make-char 'latin-iso8859-1 72)
      @result{} 2248
 @end example
+
+Actually, the eighth bit of both @var{code1} and @var{code2} is zeroed
+before they are used to index @var{charset}.  Thus you may use, for
+instance, an ISO 8859 character code rather than subtracting 128, as
+is necessary to index the corresponding Emacs charset.
 @end defun
 
 @cindex generic characters