** `mode-name' is no longer guaranteed to be a string.
Use `(format-mode-line mode-name)' to ensure a string value.
-** The feature `devanagari' and `devan-util' were removed, and all
+** The features `devanagari' and `devan-util' were removed, and all
devanagari-* and dev-* functions and variables were removed too. They
were for displaying Devanagari script with a specific kind of font in
-Emacs 22, and not necessary anymore because of OpenType font support.
+Emacs 22, and are not necessary anymore because of OpenType font support.
** The feature `kannada' and `knd-util' were removed, and all
kannada-* and knd-* functions and variables are removed too. They
iso-8859-1, iso-8859-3, etc).
*** The new function `characterp' returns t if and only if the argument
-is a character.
+is a character. This replaces `char-valid-p', which is now obsolete.
*** The new function `max-char' returns the maximum character code
(currently it is #x3FFFFF).
accepts a cons of characters as the first argument, and modify all
entries in that range of characters.
-*** The functions `char-bytes', `chars-in-region', and `char-valid-p' are
-obsolete.
-
** Code conversion changes.
*** The new function `define-coding-system' should be used to define a