changeset 21718:361e50e075d8

(syms_of_charset): Doc fix for nonascii-insert-offset.
author Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
date Thu, 23 Apr 1998 04:12:09 +0000
parents 2967063fe81c
children c888284a54f7
files src/charset.c
diffstat 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/src/charset.c	Thu Apr 23 04:09:05 1998 +0000
+++ b/src/charset.c	Thu Apr 23 04:12:09 1998 +0000
@@ -1781,9 +1781,10 @@
     "Offset for converting non-ASCII unibyte codes 0240...0377 to multibyte.\n\
 This is used for converting unibyte text to multibyte,\n\
 and for inserting character codes specified by number.\n\n\
-Conversion is performed only when multibyte characters are enabled,\n\
-and it serves to convert a Latin-1 or similar 8-bit character code\n\
-to the corresponding Emacs character code.\n\
+This serves to convert a Latin-1 or similar 8-bit character code\n\
+to the corresponding Emacs multibyte character code.\n\
+Typically the value should be (- (make-char CHARSET 0) 128),\n\
+for your choice of character set.\n\
 If `nonascii-translate-table' is non-nil, it overrides this variable.");
   nonascii_insert_offset = 0;