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authorKarl Heuer <kwzh@gnu.org>1999-06-23 16:31:28 +0000
committerKarl Heuer <kwzh@gnu.org>1999-06-23 16:31:28 +0000
commit127b0ae59b3e60b614ed5cf399d9737534718c50 (patch)
tree07ba20b2177bdfc81a9eda56da856fa03ea3103c /lisp
parent6a65d3b4e9b52fb3b341b47580b24884295add6f (diff)
downloademacs-127b0ae59b3e60b614ed5cf399d9737534718c50.tar.gz
(iso-8859-n-locale-regexp): Doc fix.
Diffstat (limited to 'lisp')
-rw-r--r--lisp/startup.el8
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/startup.el b/lisp/startup.el
index 660836dd8df..7dba8954df5 100644
--- a/lisp/startup.el
+++ b/lisp/startup.el
@@ -298,10 +298,12 @@ is less convenient."
(defconst iso-8859-n-locale-regexp "8859[-_]?\\([1-49]\\)\\>"
"Regexp that specifies when to enable an ISO 8859-N character set.
-We do that if this regexp matches the locale name
-specified by the LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE and LANG environment variables.
+We do that if this regexp matches the locale name specified by
+one of the environment variables LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, or LANG.
The paren group in the regexp should match the specific character
-set number, N. Currently only Latin-[12345] is supported.")
+set number, N. Currently only Latin-[12345] are supported.
+\(Note that Latin-5 is ISO 8859-9, because 8859-[678] are non-Latin
+alphabets.\)")
(defcustom mail-host-address nil
"*Name of this machine, for purposes of naming users."