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+++ b/doc/lispref/nonascii.texi
@@ -102,9 +102,6 @@ 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
@@ -382,6 +379,7 @@ This property corresponds to the Unicode @code{Name} property. The
value is a string consisting of upper-case Latin letters A to Z,
digits, spaces, and hyphen @samp{-} characters.
+@cindex unicode general category
@item general-category
This property corresponds to the Unicode @code{General_Category}
property. The value is a symbol whose name is a 2-letter abbreviation
@@ -508,13 +506,18 @@ This function stores @var{value} as the value of the property
@var{propname} for the character @var{char}.
@end defun
-@defvar char-script-table
+@defvar unicode-category-table
The value of this variable is a char-table (@pxref{Char-Tables}) that
-specifies, for each character, a symbol whose name is the script to
-which the character belongs, according to the Unicode Standard
-classification of the Unicode code space into script-specific blocks.
-This char-table has a single extra slot whose value is the list of all
-script symbols.
+specifies, for each character, its Unicode @code{General_Category}
+property as a symbol.
+@end defvar
+
+@defvar char-script-table
+The value of this variable is a char-table that specifies, for each
+character, a symbol whose name is the script to which the character
+belongs, according to the Unicode Standard classification of the
+Unicode code space into script-specific blocks. This char-table has a
+single extra slot whose value is the list of all script symbols.
@end defvar
@defvar char-width-table