From a3411c8b86f069eee49ca4749f4b9298e7cc04b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Mattias=20Engdeg=C3=A5rd?= Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:30:12 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Correct manual entry for string-lessp * doc/lispref/strings.texi (Text Comparison): The old text was wrong: non-ASCII unibyte chars overlap part of Unicode. --- doc/lispref/strings.texi | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/lispref/strings.texi b/doc/lispref/strings.texi index d073d3ffe2f..53d80bc84d2 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/strings.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/strings.texi @@ -578,8 +578,10 @@ Keep in mind that lower case letters have higher numeric values in the @acronym{ASCII} character set than their upper case counterparts; digits and many punctuation characters have a lower numeric value than upper case letters. An @acronym{ASCII} character is less than any non-@acronym{ASCII} -character; a unibyte non-@acronym{ASCII} character is always less than any -multibyte non-@acronym{ASCII} character (@pxref{Text Representations}). +character. However, as unibyte and multibyte strings only have the +@acronym{ASCII} character set in common, it is usually not meaningful to +compare other characters between those two types of strings +(@pxref{Text Representations}). @example @group