Mercurial > emacs
changeset 52788:814620b1c1af
Don't mention preferred-coding-system.
make-char zeroes 8th bit of code args.
| author | Dave Love <fx@gnu.org> |
|---|---|
| date | Mon, 06 Oct 2003 16:59:45 +0000 |
| parents | 785941182067 |
| children | 1f96f8c09519 |
| files | lispref/nonascii.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lispref/nonascii.texi Mon Oct 06 16:52:24 2003 +0000 +++ b/lispref/nonascii.texi Mon Oct 06 16:59:45 2003 +0000 @@ -325,9 +325,7 @@ This function returns the charset property list of the character set @var{charset}. Although @var{charset} is a symbol, this is not the same as the property list of that symbol. Charset properties are used for -special purposes within Emacs; for example, -@code{preferred-coding-system} helps determine which coding system to -use to encode characters in a charset. +special purposes within Emacs. @end defun @node Chars and Bytes @@ -401,6 +399,11 @@ (make-char 'latin-iso8859-1 72) @result{} 2248 @end example + +Actually, the eighth bit of both @var{code1} and @var{code2} is zeroed +before they are used to index @var{charset}. Thus you may use, for +instance, an ISO 8859 character code rather than subtracting 128, as +is necessary to index the corresponding Emacs charset. @end defun @cindex generic characters