Rectify string= documentation

* doc/lispref/strings.texi (Text Comparison): Describe the current
behaviour since about 20 years back.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/doc/lispref/strings.texi b/doc/lispref/strings.texi
index ba247a3edae..cf961e9e7c8 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/strings.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/strings.texi
@@ -539,21 +539,10 @@ string or symbol, @code{string=} signals an error.
      @result{} nil
 @end example
 
-For technical reasons, a unibyte and a multibyte string are
-@code{equal} if and only if they contain the same sequence of
-character codes and all these codes are either in the range 0 through
-127 (@acronym{ASCII}) or 160 through 255 (@code{eight-bit-graphic}).
-However, when a unibyte string is converted to a multibyte string, all
-characters with codes in the range 160 through 255 are converted to
-characters with higher codes, whereas @acronym{ASCII} characters
-remain unchanged.  Thus, a unibyte string and its conversion to
-multibyte are only @code{equal} if the string is all @acronym{ASCII}.
-Character codes 160 through 255 are not entirely proper in multibyte
-text, even though they can occur.  As a consequence, the situation
-where a unibyte and a multibyte string are @code{equal} without both
-being all @acronym{ASCII} is a technical oddity that very few Emacs
-Lisp programmers ever get confronted with.  @xref{Text
-Representations}.
+A unibyte and a multibyte string are equal in the sense of
+@code{string=} if and only if they contain the same sequence of
+character codes all being in the range 0--127 (@acronym{ASCII}).
+@xref{Text Representations}.
 @end defun
 
 @defun string-equal string1 string2