Document string-as-{unibyte,multibyte} as obsolete in manual

* doc/lispref/nonascii.texi (Selecting a Representation): Document
string-as-unibyte and string-as-multibyte as obsolete.

diff --git a/doc/lispref/nonascii.texi b/doc/lispref/nonascii.texi
index 696e46d4af95fa1cce0ea5c7f4acb80c511df387..43d4181e045547d6f645991f5bd5208d7ea578dd 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/lispref/nonascii.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/nonascii.texi
@@ -341,6 +341,9 @@ buffer.  An indirect buffer always inherits the representation of its
 base buffer.
 @end defun
 
+The following two functions are obsolete and will be removed in a future
+version of Emacs; use @code{encode-coding-string} instead.
+
 @defun string-as-unibyte string
 If @var{string} is already a unibyte string, this function returns
 @var{string} itself.  Otherwise, it returns a new string with the same