# HG changeset patch
# User Karl Heuer <kwzh@gnu.org>
# Date 930155488 0
# Node ID edc13d60943cdafc62f19a95c0eda86f07a4ad2e
# Parent  dc2d4e32cb21eb3a853821ff2321aa61ed8b1cd3
(iso-8859-n-locale-regexp): Doc fix.

diff -r dc2d4e32cb21 -r edc13d60943c lisp/startup.el
--- a/lisp/startup.el	Wed Jun 23 15:11:39 1999 +0000
+++ b/lisp/startup.el	Wed Jun 23 16:31:28 1999 +0000
@@ -298,10 +298,12 @@
 
 (defconst iso-8859-n-locale-regexp "8859[-_]?\\([1-49]\\)\\>"
   "Regexp that specifies when to enable an ISO 8859-N character set.
-We do that if this regexp matches the locale name
-specified by the LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE and LANG environment variables.
+We do that if this regexp matches the locale name specified by
+one of the environment variables LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, or LANG.
 The paren group in the regexp should match the specific character
-set number, N.  Currently only Latin-[12345] is supported.")
+set number, N.  Currently only Latin-[12345] are supported.
+\(Note that Latin-5 is ISO 8859-9, because 8859-[678] are non-Latin
+alphabets.\)")
 
 (defcustom mail-host-address nil
   "*Name of this machine, for purposes of naming users."