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(Flength): Doc fix.
author Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
date Sat, 16 Aug 1997 16:21:38 +0000
parents 3fa4862e07df
children 6ce37633c7f9
files src/fns.c
diffstat 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/src/fns.c	Sat Aug 16 03:42:25 1997 +0000
+++ b/src/fns.c	Sat Aug 16 16:21:38 1997 +0000
@@ -106,7 +106,10 @@
 
 DEFUN ("length", Flength, Slength, 1, 1, 0,
   "Return the length of vector, list or string SEQUENCE.\n\
-A byte-code function object is also allowed.")
+A byte-code function object is also allowed.\n\
+If the string contains multibyte characters, this is not the necessarily\n\
+the number of characters in the string; it is the number of bytes.\n\
+To get the number of characters, use `chars-in-string'")
   (sequence)
      register Lisp_Object sequence;
 {