# HG changeset patch
# User Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
# Date 1044030508 0
# Node ID d51a733d4b6ba1dee88afda4badf7f3805db6525
# Parent  5fc04772d0bdf92fa6e4c02d0036fc77b641e597
(Skipping Characters): Multibyte conversion and
char classes in skip-chars-forward.

diff -r 5fc04772d0bd -r d51a733d4b6b lispref/positions.texi
--- a/lispref/positions.texi	Fri Jan 31 15:39:48 2003 +0000
+++ b/lispref/positions.texi	Fri Jan 31 16:28:28 2003 +0000
@@ -745,6 +745,10 @@
 characters.  For example, they are often used to skip whitespace.  For
 related functions, see @ref{Motion and Syntax}.
 
+These functions convert the set string to multibyte if the buffer is
+multibyte, and they convert it to unibyte if the buffer is unibyte, as
+the search functions do (@pxref{Searching and Matching}).
+
 @defun skip-chars-forward character-set &optional limit
 This function moves point in the current buffer forward, skipping over a
 given set of characters.  It examines the character following point,
@@ -786,6 +790,15 @@
 ---------- Buffer: foo ----------
 @end group
 @end example
+
+Note that char classes are not currently supported in
+@var{character-set}; they will be treated as literals.  Thus you
+cannot use @code{"[:alpha:]"} instead of @code{"a-zA-Z"} to include
+non-ASCII letters.  A way to skip forward over all letters is:
+
+@example
+(re-search-forward "\\=[[:alpha:]]*" nil t)
+@end example
 @end defun
 
 @defun skip-chars-backward character-set &optional limit