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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2015-05-01 12:57:44 -0700
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2015-05-01 12:58:53 -0700
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Prefer plain characters to Texinfo circumlocutions
For example, prefer 'François' to 'Fran\c{c}ois', 'Fran\c cois', 'Fran@,{c}ois' or 'Francois' (all of which were used!) in Texinfo sources.
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diff --git a/doc/lispref/objects.texi b/doc/lispref/objects.texi
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+++ b/doc/lispref/objects.texi
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-@c -*-texinfo-*-
+@c -*- mode: texinfo; coding: utf-8 -*-
@c This is part of the GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual.
@c Copyright (C) 1990-1995, 1998-1999, 2001-2015 Free Software
@c Foundation, Inc.
@@ -375,13 +375,7 @@ that, Emacs signals an error.
codes. A hexadecimal escape sequence consists of a backslash,
@samp{x}, and the hexadecimal character code. Thus, @samp{?\x41} is
the character @kbd{A}, @samp{?\x1} is the character @kbd{C-a}, and
-@code{?\xe0} is the character
-@iftex
-@samp{@`a}.
-@end iftex
-@ifnottex
-@samp{a} with grave accent.
-@end ifnottex
+@code{?\xe0} is the character @kbd{à} (@kbd{a} with grave accent).
You can use any number of hex digits, so you can represent any
character code in this way.