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To include @samp{^} in a character alternative, put it anywhere but at
the beginning.
-The beginning and end of a range of multibyte characters must be in
-the same character set (@pxref{Character Sets}). Thus,
-@code{"[\x8e0-\x97c]"} is invalid because character 0x8e0 (@samp{a}
-with grave accent) is in the Emacs character set for Latin-1 but the
-character 0x97c (@samp{u} with diaeresis) is in the Emacs character
-set for Latin-2. (We use Lisp string syntax to write that example,
-and a few others in the next few paragraphs, in order to include hex
-escape sequences in them.)
-
If a range starts with a unibyte character @var{c} and ends with a
multibyte character @var{c2}, the range is divided into two parts: one
is @samp{@var{c}..?\377}, the other is @samp{@var{c1}..@var{c2}}, where