From 1f6f09c85bb5ec4d450edac910183345f3fdc500 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robert Pluim Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 11:34:38 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Explain difference between Unicode and Emacs scripts * nonascii.texi (Character Properties): Document that Emacs' scripts and Unicode's scripts do not necessarily correspond. --- doc/lispref/nonascii.texi | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) 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 -- 2.39.2