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-rw-r--r--doc/lispref/objects.texi2
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diff --git a/doc/lispref/objects.texi b/doc/lispref/objects.texi
index 2507b0540eb..6933ffe492a 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/objects.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/objects.texi
@@ -1061,7 +1061,7 @@ string. That is to say, it assumes that all non-@acronym{ASCII}
characters occurring in the string are 8-bit raw bytes.
In hexadecimal and octal escape sequences, the escaped character
-code may contain any number of digits, so the first subsequent
+code may contain a variable number of digits, so the first subsequent
character which is not a valid hexadecimal or octal digit terminates
the escape sequence. If the next character in a string could be
interpreted as a hexadecimal or octal digit, write @w{@samp{\ }}