# HG changeset patch
# User Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
# Date 1150471146 0
# Node ID f86289963a5c568a6fcfb08a6f60084548cfa4f2
# Parent  c46f87481f13c24813fa9cac7c7663ba0caf00ac
(Character Type): Clarify prev. change.
(Non-ASCII in Strings): Mention \u and \U.

diff -r c46f87481f13 -r f86289963a5c lispref/objects.texi
--- a/lispref/objects.texi	Fri Jun 16 15:18:03 2006 +0000
+++ b/lispref/objects.texi	Fri Jun 16 15:19:06 2006 +0000
@@ -440,9 +440,9 @@
 Unicode code point is @samp{U+@var{nnnnnn}}, if such a character
 is supported by Emacs.
 
-  Unlike in some other programming languages, in Emacs Lisp this
-syntax is available for character literals, and (see later) in
-strings, but not elsewhere.
+  This peculiar and inconvenient syntax was adopted for compatibility
+with other programming languages.  Unlike some other languages, Emacs
+Lisp supports this syntax in only character literals and strings.
 
 @cindex @samp{\} in character constant
 @cindex backslash in character constant
@@ -1013,6 +1013,9 @@
 string (even for an @acronym{ASCII} character) forces the string to be
 multibyte.
 
+  You can also specify characters in a string by their numeric values
+in Unicode, using @samp{\u} and @samp{\U} (@pxref{Character Type}).
+
   @xref{Text Representations}, for more information about the two
 text representations.