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diff --git a/doc/ref/api-evaluation.texi b/doc/ref/api-evaluation.texi index c2c3a4ab5..fda029127 100644 --- a/doc/ref/api-evaluation.texi +++ b/doc/ref/api-evaluation.texi @@ -664,8 +664,9 @@ However, there are some differences in encoding names recognized by Emacs and encoding names defined by IANA, the latter being essentially a subset of the former. For instance, @code{latin-1} is a valid encoding name for Emacs, but it's not according to the IANA standard, which Guile -follows; instead, you should use @code{latin1}, which is both understood -by Emacs and dubbed by IANA. +follows; instead, you should use @code{iso-8859-1}, which is both +understood by Emacs and dubbed by IANA (IANA writes it uppercase but +Emacs wants it lowercase and Guile is case insensitive.) For source code, only a subset of all possible character encodings can be interpreted by the built-in source code reader. Only those |