Remove outdated paragraph from Lisp manual (Bug#7780).

* doc/lispref/searching.texi (Regexp Special): Remove outdated discussion of
character sets.

diff --git a/doc/lispref/ChangeLog b/doc/lispref/ChangeLog
index b0c80eb..865594d 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/lispref/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/lispref/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2011-01-23  Chong Yidong  <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
+
+       * searching.texi (Regexp Special): Remove outdated discussion of
+       character sets (Bug#7780).
+
 2011-01-22  Chong Yidong  <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
 
        * frames.texi (Pop-Up Menus): Document where menu title comes

diff --git a/doc/lispref/searching.texi b/doc/lispref/searching.texi
index ee74389..360ee1e 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/lispref/searching.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/searching.texi
@@ -386,15 +386,6 @@ matches both @samp{]} and @samp{-}.
 To include @samp{^} in a character alternative, put it anywhere but at
 the beginning.
 
-The beginning and end of a range of multibyte characters must be in
-the same character set (@pxref{Character Sets}).  Thus,
-@code{"[\x8e0-\x97c]"} is invalid because character 0x8e0 (@samp{a}
-with grave accent) is in the Emacs character set for Latin-1 but the
-character 0x97c (@samp{u} with diaeresis) is in the Emacs character
-set for Latin-2.  (We use Lisp string syntax to write that example,
-and a few others in the next few paragraphs, in order to include hex
-escape sequences in them.)
-
 If a range starts with a unibyte character @var{c} and ends with a
 multibyte character @var{c2}, the range is divided into two parts: one
 is @samp{@var{c}..?\377}, the other is @samp{@var{c1}..@var{c2}}, where