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(DECODE_EMACS_MULE_COMPOSITION_CHAR): If coding->flags
is nonzero, accept multibyte form of eight-bit-control chars.
(decode_composition_emacs_mule): Likewise.
(decode_coding_emacs_mule): Likewise.
(encode_coding_emacs_mule): If coding->flags is nonzero, produce
multibyte form of eight-bit-control chars.
author | Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org> |
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date | Sat, 31 May 2003 00:56:42 +0000 |
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32809 | 6 GNU Emacs availability information, October 2000 |
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