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authorDave Love <fx@gnu.org>2000-12-21 22:28:08 +0000
committerDave Love <fx@gnu.org>2000-12-21 22:28:08 +0000
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diff --git a/lispref/nonascii.texi b/lispref/nonascii.texi
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--- a/lispref/nonascii.texi
+++ b/lispref/nonascii.texi
@@ -382,12 +382,12 @@ values is the character set's dimension.
@end example
@end defun
-@defun make-char charset &rest byte-values
-This function returns the character in character set @var{charset}
-identified by @var{byte-values}. This is roughly the inverse of
-@code{split-char}. Normally, you should specify either one or two
-@var{byte-values}, according to the dimension of @var{charset}. For
-example,
+@defun make-char charset &optional code1 code2
+This function returns the character in character set @var{charset} whose
+position codes are @var{code1} and @var{code2}. This is roughly the
+inverse of @code{split-char}. Normally, you should specify either one
+or both of @var{code1} and @var{code2} according to the dimension of
+@var{charset}. For example,
@example
(make-char 'latin-iso8859-1 72)
@@ -416,7 +416,10 @@ For example:
@end example
The character sets @sc{ascii}, @sc{eight-bit-control}, and
-@sc{eight-bit-graphic} don't have corresponding generic characters.
+@sc{eight-bit-graphic} don't have corresponding generic characters. If
+@var{charset} is one of them and you don't supply @var{code1},
+@code{make-char} returns the character code corresponding to the
+smallest code in @var{charset}.
@node Scanning Charsets
@section Scanning for Character Sets