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authorIngo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2013-11-10 14:32:57 +0000
committerIngo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2013-11-10 14:32:57 +0000
commitee4cd35f18e29bf02ffa319ff6f51e469f45a4da (patch)
tree46a7a0a7b395012eef671e8b681dd8c2172927fe /mandoc_char.7
parentb8b7209f4bf34671b83dc0e39a5e71e48c1e8085 (diff)
downloadmandoc-ee4cd35f18e29bf02ffa319ff6f51e469f45a4da.tar.gz
clarify that \[uXXXX] wants uppercase hex digits
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diff --git a/mandoc_char.7 b/mandoc_char.7
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@@ -661,7 +661,12 @@ The escape sequence
.Pp
is interpreted as a Unicode codepoint.
The codepoint must be in the range above U+0080 and less than U+10FFFF.
-For compatibility, points must be zero-padded to four characters; if
+For compatibility, the hexadecimal digits
+.Sq A
+to
+.Sq F
+must be given as uppercase characters,
+and points must be zero-padded to four characters; if
greater than four characters, no zero padding is allowed.
Unicode surrogates are not allowed.
.\" .Pp