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Diffstat (limited to 'lisp')
| -rw-r--r-- | lisp/emacs-lisp/subr-x.el | 9 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/subr-x.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/subr-x.el index 39697a8e725..5159e8784a5 100644 --- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/subr-x.el +++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/subr-x.el @@ -170,11 +170,10 @@ limit the string to. The result will be a unibyte string that is shorter than LENGTH, but will not contain \"partial\" characters (or glyphs), even if CODING-SYSTEM encodes characters with several bytes per character. If the coding system specifies -things like byte order marks (aka \"BOM\") or language tags, they -will normally be part of the calculation. This is the case, for -instance, with `utf-16'. If this isn't desired, use a coding -system that doesn't specify a BOM, like `utf-16le' or -`utf-16be'. +prefix like the byte order mark (aka \"BOM\") or a shift-in sequence, +their bytes will be normally counted as part of LENGTH. This is +the case, for instance, with `utf-16'. If this isn't desired, use a +coding system that doesn't specify a BOM, like `utf-16le' or `utf-16be'. When shortening strings for display purposes, `truncate-string-to-width' is almost always a better alternative |