@c -*-texinfo-*-
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strings, since the underlying C functions treat that as the end of
string. If there's a zero byte an error is thrown.
-Patterns and input strings are treated as being in the locale
-character set if @code{setlocale} has been called (@pxref{Locales}),
-and in a multibyte locale this includes treating multi-byte sequences
-as a single character. (Guile strings are currently merely bytes,
-though this may change in the future, @xref{Conversion to/from C}.)
+Internally, patterns and input strings are converted to the current
+locale's encoding, and then passed to the C library's regular expression
+routines (@pxref{Regular Expressions,,, libc, The GNU C Library
+Reference Manual}). The returned match structures always point to
+characters in the strings, not to individual bytes, even in the case of
+multi-byte encodings.
@deffn {Scheme Procedure} string-match pattern str [start]
Compile the string @var{pattern} into a regular expression and compare