string-as-{muti,uni}byte doesn't act on a buffer.

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 396f2df74b444fd34f873d796f1cdf2957a63324..1419e59ac94abc850dc00555b6bb534f0e641166 100644 (file)
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -2734,8 +2734,8 @@ multibyte buffer and `unknown' in a unibyte buffer.
 
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 *** The functions `set-buffer-modified', `string-as-multibyte' and
-`string-as-unibyte' change the byte sequence of a buffer if it
-contains a character from the `eight-bit-control' character set.
+`string-as-unibyte' change the byte sequence of a buffer or a string
+if it contains a character from the `eight-bit-control' character set.
 
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 *** The handling of multibyte sequences in a multibyte buffer is