(General Escape Syntax): "a with grave accent" is ?xe0, not ?x8e0.

Fixes: debbugs:5259

2 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/doc/lispref/ChangeLog b/doc/lispref/ChangeLog
index 1d1730e078d..d7a0fd14ae4 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/lispref/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2011-07-13  Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen  <larsi@gnus.org>
+
+        * objects.texi (General Escape Syntax): "a with grave accent" is
+        ?xe0, not ?x8e0 (bug#5259).
+
 2011-07-12  Chong Yidong  <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
 
         * display.texi (Face Attributes, Font Selection): Add references
diff --git a/doc/lispref/objects.texi b/doc/lispref/objects.texi
index 27d9ba10aef..6d63bb7b750 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/objects.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/objects.texi
@@ -392,7 +392,7 @@ value is more important than the @acronym{ASCII} representation.
 and the hexadecimal character code.  You can use any number of hex
 digits, so you can represent any character code in this way.
 Thus, @samp{?\x41} for the character @kbd{A}, @samp{?\x1} for the
-character @kbd{C-a}, and @code{?\x8e0} for the Latin-1 character
+character @kbd{C-a}, and @code{?\xe0} for the Latin-1 character
 @iftex
 @samp{@`a}.
 @end iftex
@@ -1037,7 +1037,7 @@ digits as necessary.  (Multibyte non-@acronym{ASCII} character codes are all
 greater than 256.)  Any character which is not a valid hex digit
 terminates this construct.  If the next character in the string could be
 interpreted as a hex digit, write @w{@samp{\ }} (backslash and space) to
-terminate the hex escape---for example, @w{@samp{\x8e0\ }} represents
+terminate the hex escape---for example, @w{@samp{\xe0\ }} represents
 one character, @samp{a} with grave accent.  @w{@samp{\ }} in a string
 constant is just like backslash-newline; it does not contribute any
 character to the string, but it does terminate the preceding hex escape.