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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH, doc RFA] Fix lazy string type docs
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> From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
> Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 11:30:39 -0700
> Cc: gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
> 
> On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 11:21 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
>  > Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2016 17:46:28 +0000
>  > From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
>  >
>  > +Return the type of a character in @var{lazy-string}.
> 
>  Hmm... what is "type of a character" in this context?
> 
>  I have no comments to the markup or the text.
> 
>  Thanks.
> 
> ​Consider​ char vs wchar_t.
> e.g.,
> #include <stddef.h>
> char foo[] = "bar";
> wchar_t wide_foo[] = L"bar";

So maybe it would be more clear to say "the type of characters",
plural?  And perhaps give an example or two of what types these could
be?

Thanks.