Docfix. [Bug 921464]

2 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index d9799f6..e44c623 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2004-03-23  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk>
+
+	* doc/StringObj.3: Inverted the sense of the documentation of how
+	the bytes parameter is documented to match behaviour. [Bug 921464]
+
 2004-03-19  Kevin B. Kenny   <kennykb@acm.org>
 
 	* compat/strtoll.c:
diff --git a/doc/StringObj.3 b/doc/StringObj.3
index b40cf49..86db898 100644
--- a/doc/StringObj.3
+++ b/doc/StringObj.3
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 '\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution
 '\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.
 '\" 
-'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: StringObj.3,v 1.15 2004/03/09 12:59:04 vincentdarley Exp $
+'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: StringObj.3,v 1.16 2004/03/23 09:01:00 dkf Exp $
 '\" 
 .so man.macros
 .TH Tcl_StringObj 3 8.1 Tcl "Tcl Library Procedures"
@@ -77,8 +77,8 @@ Tcl_Obj *
 .VS 8.1
 Points to the first byte of an array of UTF-8-encoded bytes
 used to set or append to a string object.
-This byte array should not contain embedded null bytes
-unless \fIlength\fR is negative.  (Applications needing null bytes
+This byte array may contain embedded null characters
+unless \fInumChars\fR is negative.  (Applications needing null bytes
 should represent them as the two-byte sequence \fI\\700\\600\fR, use
 \fBTcl_ExternalToUtf\fR to convert, or \fBTcl_NewByteArrayObj\fR if
 the string is a collection of uninterpreted bytes.)