Merge from emacs-23; up to 2010-05-26T14:19:15Z!monnier@iro.umontreal.ca.

[gnu-emacs] / doc / lispref / nonascii.texi

diff --git a/doc/lispref/nonascii.texi b/doc/lispref/nonascii.texi
index 00a1dffed6a379a0cfbb8e230a643663b91120b5..409ecc7e20c75e12fdcaecb82904feded66ad9fd 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/lispref/nonascii.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/nonascii.texi
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 @c -*-texinfo-*-
 @c This is part of the GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual.
-@c Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,
-@c   2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+@c Copyright (C) 1998-1999, 2001-2011  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 @c See the file elisp.texi for copying conditions.
 @setfilename ../../info/characters
 @node Non-ASCII Characters, Searching and Matching, Text, Top
@@ -102,9 +101,6 @@ it contains unibyte encoded text or binary non-text data.
 
 You cannot set this variable directly; instead, use the function
 @code{set-buffer-multibyte} to change a buffer's representation.
-
-The @samp{--unibyte} command line option does its job by setting the
-default value to @code{nil} early in startup.
 @end defvar
 
 @defun position-bytes position
@@ -202,6 +198,13 @@ unibyte string, it is returned unchanged.  Use this function for
 characters.
 @end defun
 
+@defun byte-to-string byte
+@cindex byte to string
+This function returns a unibyte string containing a single byte of
+character data, @var{character}.  It signals a error if
+@var{character} is not an integer between 0 and 255.
+@end defun
+
 @defun multibyte-char-to-unibyte char
 This converts the multibyte character @var{char} to a unibyte
 character, and returns that character.  If @var{char} is neither
@@ -1917,7 +1920,3 @@ strings in the return value are decoded using
 @code{locale-coding-system}.  @xref{Locales,,, libc, The GNU Libc Manual},
 for more information about locales and locale items.
 @end defun
-
-@ignore
-   arch-tag: be705bf8-941b-4c35-84fc-ad7d20ddb7cb
-@end ignore