From: Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 04:03:51 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Feeble attempt to repair obsolete info about hex escapes.
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Feeble attempt to repair obsolete info about hex escapes.
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diff --git a/Doc/ref/ref2.tex b/Doc/ref/ref2.tex
index d1503b42604c..3a8bba2de584 100644
--- a/Doc/ref/ref2.tex
+++ b/Doc/ref/ref2.tex
@@ -358,10 +358,8 @@ to those used by Standard \C{}.  The recognized escape sequences are:
 \end{tableii}
 \index{ASCII@\ASCII{}}
 
-In strict compatibility with Standard C, up to three octal digits are
-accepted, but an unlimited number of hex digits is taken to be part of
-the hex escape (and then the lower 8 bits of the resulting hex number
-are used in 8-bit implementations).
+As in Standard C, up to three octal digits are accepted.  However,
+exactly two hex digits are taken in hex escapes.
 
 Unlike Standard \index{unrecognized escape sequence}C,
 all unrecognized escape sequences are left in the string unchanged,