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New node Charsets.

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* Defining Fontsets::       Defining a new fontset.
* Undisplayable Characters:: When characters don't display.
* Single-Byte Character Support::
                            You can pick one European character set
                            to use without multibyte characters.
@end menu

@node International Chars
@section Introduction to International Character Sets

language, to make it convenient to type them.

@kindex C-x RET
  The prefix key @kbd{C-x @key{RET}} is used for commands that pertain
to multibyte characters, coding systems, and input methods.

@ignore
@c This is commented out because it doesn't fit here, or anywhere.
@c This manual does not discuss "character sets" as they
@c are used in Mule, and it makes no sense to mention these commands
@c except as part of a larger discussion of the topic.
@c But it is not clear that topic is worth mentioning here,
@c since that is more of an implementation concept
@c than a user-level concept.  And when we switch to Unicode,
@c character sets in the current sense may not even exist.

@findex list-charset-chars
@cindex characters in a certain charset
  The command @kbd{M-x list-charset-chars} prompts for a name of a
character set, and displays all the characters in that character set.

@findex describe-character-set
@cindex character set, description
  The command @kbd{M-x describe-character-set} prompts for a character
set name and displays information about that character set, including
its internal representation within Emacs.
@end ignore

@node Enabling Multibyte
@section Enabling Multibyte Characters

@cindex turn multibyte support on or off

a minor mode that works much like the @code{latin-1-prefix} input
method, but does not depend on having the input methods installed.  This
mode is buffer-local.  It can be customized for various languages with
@kbd{M-x iso-accents-customize}.
@end itemize

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* Defining Fontsets::       Defining a new fontset.
* Undisplayable Characters:: When characters don't display.
* Single-Byte Character Support::
                            You can pick one European character set
                            to use without multibyte characters.
* Charsets::                How Emacs groups its internal character codes.
@end menu

@node International Chars
@section Introduction to International Character Sets

language, to make it convenient to type them.

@kindex C-x RET
  The prefix key @kbd{C-x @key{RET}} is used for commands that pertain
to multibyte characters, coding systems, and input methods.

@node Enabling Multibyte
@section Enabling Multibyte Characters

@cindex turn multibyte support on or off

a minor mode that works much like the @code{latin-1-prefix} input
method, but does not depend on having the input methods installed.  This
mode is buffer-local.  It can be customized for various languages with
@kbd{M-x iso-accents-customize}.
@end itemize

@node Charsets
@section Charsets
@cindex charsets

  Emacs groups all supported characters into disjoint @dfn{charsets}.
Each character code belongs to one and only one charset.  For
historical reasons, Emacs typically divides an 8-bit character code
for an extended version of ASCII into two charsets: ASCII, which
covers the codes 0 through 127, plus another charset which covers the
``right-hand part'' (the codes 128 and up).  For instance, the
characters of Latin-1 include the Emacs charset @code{ascii} plus the
Emacs charset @code{latin-iso8859-1}.

  Emacs characters belonging to different charsets may look the same,
but they are still different characters.  For example, the letter
@samp{o} with acute accent in charset @code{latin-iso8859-1}, used for
Latin-1, is different from the letter @samp{o} with acute accent in
charset @code{latin-iso8859-2}, used for Latin-2.

@findex list-charset-chars
@cindex characters in a certain charset
@findex describe-character-set
  There are two commands for obtaining information about Emacs
charsets.  The command @kbd{M-x list-charset-chars} prompts for a name
of a character set, and displays all the characters in that character
set.  The command @kbd{M-x describe-character-set} prompts for a
charset name and displays information about that charset, including
its internal representation within Emacs.

  To find out which charset a character in the buffer belongs to,
put point before it and type @kbd{C-u C-x =}.