** Buffer positions are now measured in characters, as they were<BR>
in Emacs 19 and before.  This means that (forward-char 1)
always increases point by 1.
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The function chars-in-region now just subtracts its arguments.  It is
considered obsolete.  The function char-boundary-p has been deleted.
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See below for additional changes relating to multibyte characters.
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