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@@ -213,7 +213,9 @@ it references a low surrogate preceded by a high surrogate, it returns -1;
characters between \fIfirst\fR and \fIlast\fR (inclusive) in the
value's Unicode representation. If the value's Unicode
representation is invalid, the Unicode representation is regenerated
-from the value's string representation.
+from the value's string representation. If \fIfirst\fR < 0, then
+the returned string starts at the beginning of the value. If \fIlast\fR < 0,
+then the returned string ends at the end of the value.
.PP
\fBTcl_GetCharLength\fR returns the number of characters (as opposed
to bytes) in the string value.