# HG changeset patch # User Richard M. Stallman # Date 1009509033 0 # Node ID c66f34e7d2cd94b278b0879de8e727208c1d9af6 # Parent 2c10a073bcbf242398b98850d2135cb9745910ff Update C-u C-x = output format. diff -r 2c10a073bcbf -r c66f34e7d2cd man/basic.texi --- a/man/basic.texi Fri Dec 28 03:01:42 2001 +0000 +++ b/man/basic.texi Fri Dec 28 03:10:33 2001 +0000 @@ -654,19 +654,29 @@ point=26957 of 26956(100%) column 0 @end smallexample - @w{@kbd{C-u C-x =}} displays additional information about a character, -in place of the buffer coordinates and column: the character set name -and the codes that identify the character within that character set; -ASCII characters are identified as belonging to the @code{ASCII} -character set. In addition, the full character encoding, even if it -takes more than a single byte, is shown after @samp{ext}. Here's an -example for a Latin-1 character A with a grave accent in a buffer whose -coding system is iso-2022-7bit@footnote{On terminals that support -Latin-1 characters, the character shown after @samp{Char:} is displayed -as the actual glyph of A with grave accent.}: + @w{@kbd{C-u C-x =}} displays additional information about a +character, including the character set name and the codes that +identify the character within that character set; ASCII characters are +identified as belonging to the @code{ASCII} character set. It also +shows the character's syntax, categories, and encodings both +internally in the buffer and externally if you save the file. It also +shows the character's text properties, if any. + + Here's an example showing the Latin-1 character A with grave accent, +in a buffer whose coding system is @code{iso-2022-7bit} and whose +terminal coding system is @code{iso-latin-1} (so the terminal actually +displays the character as @samp{@`A}): @smallexample -Char: @`A (04300, 2240, 0x8c0, ext ESC , A @@) (latin-iso8859-1 64) + character: @`A (04300, 2240, 0x8c0) + charset: latin-iso8859-1 + (Right-Hand Part of Latin Alphabet 1@dots{} + code point: 64 + syntax: w which means: word + category: l:Latin + buffer code: 0x81 0xC0 + file code: ESC 2C 41 40 (encoded by coding system iso-2022-7bit) +terminal code: C0 @end smallexample @node Arguments