2 files changed, 3 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/src/fns.c b/src/fns.c
index d6299755201..8db2a86a725 100644
--- a/src/fns.c
+++ b/src/fns.c
@@ -1042,10 +1042,8 @@ string the same way whether it is unibyte or multibyte.)  */)
 DEFUN ("string-make-unibyte", Fstring_make_unibyte, Sstring_make_unibyte,
        1, 1, 0,
        doc: /* Return the unibyte equivalent of STRING.
-Multibyte character codes are converted to unibyte according to
-`nonascii-translation-table' or, if that is nil, `nonascii-insert-offset'.
-If the lookup in the translation table fails, this function takes just
-the low 8 bits of each character.  */)
+Multibyte character codes above 255 are converted to unibyte
+by taking just the low 8 bits of each character's code.  */)
   (Lisp_Object string)
 {
   CHECK_STRING (string);
diff --git a/src/search.c b/src/search.c
index 9bde884bc53..db7fecd9bab 100644
--- a/src/search.c
+++ b/src/search.c
@@ -1341,12 +1341,7 @@ search_buffer (Lisp_Object string, ptrdiff_t pos, ptrdiff_t pos_byte,
         }
       else
         {
-          /* Converting multibyte to single-byte.
-
-             ??? Perhaps this conversion should be done in a special way
-             by subtracting nonascii-insert-offset from each non-ASCII char,
-             so that only the multibyte chars which really correspond to
-             the chosen single-byte character set can possibly match.  */
+          /* Converting multibyte to single-byte.  */
           raw_pattern_size = SCHARS (string);
           raw_pattern_size_byte = SCHARS (string);
           raw_pattern = SAFE_ALLOCA (raw_pattern_size + 1);