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(Enabling Multibyte): Rephrase the confusing reference to a colon in the mode line.

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The motivation for these conventions is that it is more reliable to
always load any particular Lisp file in the same way.  However, you can
load a Lisp file as unibyte, on any one occasion, by typing @kbd{C-x
@key{RET} c raw-text @key{RET}} immediately before loading it.

  The mode line indicates whether multibyte character support is enabled
in the current buffer.  If it is, there are two or more characters (most
often two dashes) before the colon near the beginning of the mode line.
When multibyte characters are not enabled, nothing precedes the colon
except a single dash.

@node Language Environments
@section Language Environments
@cindex language environments

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The motivation for these conventions is that it is more reliable to
always load any particular Lisp file in the same way.  However, you can
load a Lisp file as unibyte, on any one occasion, by typing @kbd{C-x
@key{RET} c raw-text @key{RET}} immediately before loading it.

  The mode line indicates whether multibyte character support is
enabled in the current buffer.  If it is, there are two or more
characters (most often two dashes) near the beginning of the mode
line, before the indication of the visited file's end-of-line
convention (colon, backslash, etc.).  When multibyte characters
are not enabled, nothing precedes the colon except a single dash.
@xref{Mode Line}, for more details about this.

@node Language Environments
@section Language Environments
@cindex language environments