(Position Info): Describe the case that Emacs shows

"part of display ...".

2 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/man/ChangeLog b/man/ChangeLog
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--- a/man/ChangeLog
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@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2005-10-12  Kenichi Handa  <handa@m17n.org>
+
+        * basic.texi (Position Info): Describe the case that Emacs shows
+        "part of display ...".
+
 2005-10-11  Jay Belanger  <belanger@truman.edu>
 
         * calc.texi (Integration): Mention using `a i' to compute definite
diff --git a/man/basic.texi b/man/basic.texi
index 2f5aa3162e1..292de46fc7c 100644
--- a/man/basic.texi
+++ b/man/basic.texi
@@ -636,10 +636,17 @@ Char: c (0143, 99, 0x63)  point=21044 of 26883(78%)  column 53
   The four values after @samp{Char:} describe the character that follows
 point, first by showing it and then by giving its character code in
 octal, decimal and hex.  For a non-@acronym{ASCII} multibyte character, these are
-followed by @samp{ext} and the character's representation, in hex, in
+followed by @samp{file} and the character's representation, in hex, in
 the buffer's coding system, if that coding system encodes the character
 safely and with a single byte (@pxref{Coding Systems}).  If the
-character's encoding is longer than one byte, Emacs shows @samp{ext ...}.
+character's encoding is longer than one byte, Emacs shows @samp{file ...}.
+
+  However, if the character displayed is in the range 0200 through
+0377 octal, there's a case that it actually represents an invalid
+UTF-8 byte.  Emacs represents such a byte in a buffer by a sequence of
+8-bit characters, but displays only the original invalid byte in octal
+form.  In such a case, Emacs shows @samp{part of display ...} instead
+of @samp{file}.
 
   @samp{point=} is followed by the position of point expressed as a character
 count.  The front of the buffer counts as position 1, one character later