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 51.4.5 Non-ASCII Characters in Init Files
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 Language and coding systems may cause problems if your init file
 contains non-ASCII characters, such as accented letters, in strings or
 key bindings.
 
    If you want to use non-ASCII characters in your init file, you should
 put a ‘-*-coding: CODING-SYSTEM-*-’ tag on the first line of the init
 file, and specify a coding system that supports the character(s) in
 question.  Recognize Coding.  This is because the defaults for
 decoding non-ASCII text might not yet be set up by the time Emacs reads
 those parts of your init file which use such strings, possibly leading
 Emacs to decode those strings incorrectly.  You should then avoid adding
 Emacs Lisp code that modifies the coding system in other ways, such as
 calls to ‘set-language-environment’.
 
    To bind non-ASCII keys, you must use a vector (Init
 Rebinding).  The string syntax cannot be used, since the non-ASCII
 characters will be interpreted as meta keys.  For instance:
 
      (global-set-key [?CHAR] 'some-function)
 
 Type ‘C-q’, followed by the key you want to bind, to insert CHAR.
 
    *Warning:* if you change the keyboard encoding, or change between
 multibyte and unibyte mode, or anything that would alter which code
 ‘C-q’ would insert for that character, this key binding may stop
 working.  It is therefore advisable to use one and only one coding
 system, for your init file as well as the files you edit.  For example,
 don’t mix the ‘latin-1’ and ‘latin-9’ coding systems.
 

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