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32 Non-ASCII Characters *********************** This chapter covers the special issues relating to characters and how they are stored in strings and buffers.
· Text Representations How Emacs represents text.
· Disabling Multibyte Controlling whether to use multibyte characters.
· Converting Representations Converting unibyte to multibyte and vice versa.
· Selecting a Representation Treating a byte sequence as unibyte or multi.
· Character Codes How unibyte and multibyte relate to
codes of individual characters.
· Character Properties Character attributes that define their
behavior and handling.
· Character Sets The space of possible character codes
is divided into various character sets.
· Scanning Charsets Which character sets are used in a buffer?
· Translation of Characters Translation tables are used for conversion.
· Coding Systems Coding systems are conversions for saving files.
· Input Methods Input methods allow users to enter various
non-ASCII characters without special keyboards.
· Locales Interacting with the POSIX locale.