From a208633805e2181f6c63b8f60103f4e369eb8e8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:31:15 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] *** empty log message *** --- etc/NEWS | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index 1ec6634c897..9c9aac87ce9 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -1372,18 +1372,22 @@ Generic characters no longer exist. In buffers and strings, characters are represented by UTF-8 byte sequences in a multibyte buffer/string. ++++ The concept of a charset has changed. A single character may belong to multiple charsets (e.g. a-grave, U+00E0, belongs to charsets unicode, iso-8859-1, iso-8859-3, etc). +--- *** The functions `split-char' and `make-char' now accept up to 4 positional codes instead of just 2. ++++ *** The functions `encode-char' and `decode-char' now accept any character sets. *** The function `define-charset' now accepts a completely different form of arguments (old-style arguments still work). ++++ *** The value of the function `char-charset' depends on the current priorities of charsets. @@ -1403,6 +1407,7 @@ entries in that range of characters. *** New functions: ++++ **** `characterp' returns t if and only if the argument is a character. This replaces `char-valid-p', which is now obsolete. @@ -1410,10 +1415,13 @@ This replaces `char-valid-p', which is now obsolete. **** `define-charset-alias' defines an alias of a charset. ++++ **** `set-charset-priority' sets priorities of charsets. ++++ **** `charset-priority-list' returns a prioritized list of charsets. ++++ **** `unibyte-string' makes a unibyte string from bytes. **** `define-char-code-property' defines a character code property. @@ -1482,6 +1490,7 @@ robin rule can hold the original ASCII sequence as a char-code-property) *** The new function `robin-use-package' starts using a Robin package as an input method. ++++ *** The new function `string-to-unibyte' is like `string-as-unibyte' but signals an error if STRING contains a non-ASCII, non-eight-bit character. -- 2.39.2