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authorRichard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>1998-05-26 18:56:56 +0000
committerRichard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>1998-05-26 18:56:56 +0000
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@@ -439,9 +439,9 @@ the string). The specified part of @var{string2} runs from index
@var{start2} up to index @var{end2} (default, the end of the string).
The strings are both converted to multibyte for the comparison
-(@pxref{Text Representations}) so that a unibyte string can be usefully
-compared with a multibyte string. If @var{ignore-case} is
-non-@code{nil}, then case is ignored as well.
+(@pxref{Text Representations}) so that a unibyte string can be equal to
+a multibyte string. If @var{ignore-case} is non-@code{nil}, then case
+is ignored, so that upper case letters can be equal to lower case letters.
If the specified portions of the two strings match, the value is
@code{t}. Otherwise, the value is an integer which indicates how many