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diff --git a/doc/sciteco.7.template b/doc/sciteco.7.template index a5b7f4a..d0574d7 100644 --- a/doc/sciteco.7.template +++ b/doc/sciteco.7.template @@ -87,10 +87,6 @@ regular commands for command-line editing. . When the user presses a key or key-combination it is first translated to an UTF-8 string. -All immediate editing commands and regular \*(ST commands however operate on -a language based solely on -.B ASCII -codes, which is a subset of Unicode. The rules for translating keys are as follows: .RS .IP 1. 4 @@ -138,6 +134,18 @@ This feature is called function key macros and explained in the next subsection. .RE . +.LP +All immediate editing commands and regular \*(ST commands however operate on +a language based solely on +.B ASCII +codes, which is a subset of Unicode. +\# This is because we cannot assume the presence of any particular non-ANSI +\# symbol on a user's keyboard. +Since the \*(ST parser is Unicode-aware, this does not exclude +using Unicode glyphs wherever a single character is expected, +ie. \fB^^\fIx\fR and \fBU\fIq\fR works with arbitrary Unicode glyphs. +All \*(ST macros must be in valid UTF-8. +. .SS Function Key Macros . .SCITECO_TOPIC "function key" @@ -1082,8 +1090,8 @@ Consequently when querying the code at a character position or inserting characters by code, the code may be an Unicode codepoint instead of byte-sized integer. .LP -Currently, \*(ST supports UTF-8 and single-byte ANSI encodings, -that can also be used for editing raw binary files. +Currently, \*(ST supports buffers in UTF-8 and single-byte +ANSI encodings, that can also be used for editing raw binary files. \# You can configure other single-byte code pages with EE, \# but there isn't yet any way to insert characters. UTF-8 is the default codepage for new buffers and Q-Registers |