From 8b45c9c4a97c0492b14b8a3692a66eff99ba58e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Karpinski <stefan@karpinski.org>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 11:53:14 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] string docs: clarify handling of overlong and too-high
 sequences

---
 doc/src/manual/strings.md | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/src/manual/strings.md b/doc/src/manual/strings.md
index d0f3a38016b80..60eea9cfa772b 100644
--- a/doc/src/manual/strings.md
+++ b/doc/src/manual/strings.md
@@ -384,8 +384,9 @@ a sequence of code units from left to right characters are formed by the longest
 * `10xxxxxx`;
 * `11111xxx`.
 
-In particular this implies that overlong and too high code unit sequences are accepted.
-This rule is best explained by an example:
+In particular this means that overlong and too-high code unit sequences and prefixes thereof are treated
+as a single invalid character rather than multiple invalid characters.
+This rule may be best explained with an example:
 
 ```julia-repl
 julia> s = "\xc0\xa0\xe2\x88\xe2|"