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diff --git a/doc/lispref/nonascii.texi b/doc/lispref/nonascii.texi index 43766d5087a..d5bfacca976 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/nonascii.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/nonascii.texi @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ inclusive. Emacs extends this range with codepoints in the range @code{#x110000..#x3FFFFF}, which it uses for representing characters that are not unified with Unicode and @dfn{raw 8-bit bytes} that cannot be interpreted as characters. Thus, a character codepoint in -Emacs is a 22-bit integer number. +Emacs is a 22-bit integer. @cindex internal representation of characters @cindex characters, representation in buffers and strings @@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ character data, @var{character}. It signals an error if @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 -@acronym{ASCII} nor eight-bit, the function returns -1. +@acronym{ASCII} nor eight-bit, the function returns @minus{}1. @end defun @defun unibyte-char-to-multibyte char @@ -451,7 +451,7 @@ is @code{Cn}. @item canonical-combining-class Corresponds to the @code{Canonical_Combining_Class} Unicode property. -The value is an integer number. For unassigned codepoints, the value +The value is an integer. For unassigned codepoints, the value is zero. @cindex bidirectional class of characters @@ -479,13 +479,13 @@ unassigned codepoints, the value is the character itself. @item decimal-digit-value Corresponds to the Unicode @code{Numeric_Value} property for characters whose @code{Numeric_Type} is @samp{Decimal}. The value is -an integer number. For unassigned codepoints, the value is +an integer. For unassigned codepoints, the value is @code{nil}, which means @acronym{NaN}, or ``not-a-number''. @item digit-value Corresponds to the Unicode @code{Numeric_Value} property for characters whose @code{Numeric_Type} is @samp{Digit}. The value is an -integer number. Examples of such characters include compatibility +integer. Examples of such characters include compatibility subscript and superscript digits, for which the value is the corresponding number. For unassigned codepoints, the value is @code{nil}, which means @acronym{NaN}. @@ -493,7 +493,7 @@ corresponding number. For unassigned codepoints, the value is @item numeric-value Corresponds to the Unicode @code{Numeric_Value} property for characters whose @code{Numeric_Type} is @samp{Numeric}. The value of -this property is an integer or a floating-point number. Examples of +this property is a number. Examples of characters that have this property include fractions, subscripts, superscripts, Roman numerals, currency numerators, and encircled numbers. For example, the value of this property for the character |