# HG changeset patch # User Kenichi Handa # Date 1129122150 0 # Node ID ef089f65562103d8e18415f0129fe9d7101ea2ea # Parent 305c3788dcb29092a1ecc6da49217c9df49fc530 (Position Info): Describe the case that Emacs shows "part of display ...". diff -r 305c3788dcb2 -r ef089f655621 man/basic.texi --- a/man/basic.texi Wed Oct 12 12:19:15 2005 +0000 +++ b/man/basic.texi Wed Oct 12 13:02:30 2005 +0000 @@ -636,10 +636,17 @@ The four values after @samp{Char:} describe the character that follows point, first by showing it and then by giving its character code in octal, decimal and hex. For a non-@acronym{ASCII} multibyte character, these are -followed by @samp{ext} and the character's representation, in hex, in +followed by @samp{file} and the character's representation, in hex, in the buffer's coding system, if that coding system encodes the character safely and with a single byte (@pxref{Coding Systems}). If the -character's encoding is longer than one byte, Emacs shows @samp{ext ...}. +character's encoding is longer than one byte, Emacs shows @samp{file ...}. + + However, if the character displayed is in the range 0200 through +0377 octal, there's a case that it actually represents an invalid +UTF-8 byte. Emacs represents such a byte in a buffer by a sequence of +8-bit characters, but displays only the original invalid byte in octal +form. In such a case, Emacs shows @samp{part of display ...} instead +of @samp{file}. @samp{point=} is followed by the position of point expressed as a character count. The front of the buffer counts as position 1, one character later