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elisp: Coding Systems

 
 32.10 Coding Systems
 ====================
 
 When Emacs reads or writes a file, and when Emacs sends text to a
 subprocess or receives text from a subprocess, it normally performs
 character code conversion and end-of-line conversion as specified by a
 particular “coding system”.
 
    How to define a coding system is an arcane matter, and is not
 documented here.
 

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· Coding System Basics        Basic concepts.
· Encoding and I/O            How file I/O functions handle coding systems.
· Lisp and Coding Systems     Functions to operate on coding system names.
· User-Chosen Coding Systems  Asking the user to choose a coding system.
· Default Coding Systems      Controlling the default choices.
· Specifying Coding Systems   Requesting a particular coding system
                                     for a single file operation.
· Explicit Encoding           Encoding or decoding text without doing I/O.
· Terminal I/O Encoding       Use of encoding for terminal I/O.
 

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