From: Robert Pluim Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 09:34:38 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Explain difference between Unicode and Emacs scripts X-Git-Tag: emacs-28.0.90~5545 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1f6f09c85bb5ec4d450edac910183345f3fdc500;p=emacs.git Explain difference between Unicode and Emacs scripts * nonascii.texi (Character Properties): Document that Emacs' scripts and Unicode's scripts do not necessarily correspond. --- diff --git a/doc/lispref/nonascii.texi b/doc/lispref/nonascii.texi index 8e9d62429c2..97bc85f152e 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/nonascii.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/nonascii.texi @@ -722,7 +722,10 @@ The value of this variable is a char-table that specifies, for each character, a symbol whose name is the script to which the character belongs, according to the Unicode Standard classification of the Unicode code space into script-specific blocks. This char-table has a -single extra slot whose value is the list of all script symbols. +single extra slot whose value is the list of all script symbols. Note +that Emacs' classification of characters into scripts is not a 1-for-1 +reflection of the Unicode standard, e.g. there is no @samp{symbol} +script in Unicode. @end defvar @defvar char-width-table