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(Coding Systems, Specify Coding): Link descriptions of character translation.

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non-@acronym{ASCII} characters stored with the internal Emacs encoding.  It
handles end-of-line conversion based on the data encountered, and has
the usual three variants to specify the kind of end-of-line conversion.

@findex unify-8859-on-decoding-mode
  The @dfn{character translation} feature can modify the effect of
various coding systems, by changing the internal Emacs codes that
decoding produces.  For instance, the command
@code{unify-8859-on-decoding-mode} enables a mode that ``unifies'' the
Latin alphabets when decoding text.  This works by converting all

use of the Latin-1 coding system, as well as C mode.  When you specify
the coding explicitly in the file, that overrides
@code{file-coding-system-alist}.

  If you add the character @samp{!} at the end of the coding system
name in @code{coding}, it disables any character translation while
decoding the file.  For instance, it effectively cancels the effect of
@code{unify-8859-on-decoding-mode}.  This is useful when you need to
make sure that the character codes in the Emacs buffer will not vary
due to changes in user settings; for instance, for the sake of strings
in Emacs Lisp source files.

@node Output Coding
@section Choosing Coding Systems for Output

@vindex buffer-file-coding-system

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non-@acronym{ASCII} characters stored with the internal Emacs encoding.  It
handles end-of-line conversion based on the data encountered, and has
the usual three variants to specify the kind of end-of-line conversion.

@findex unify-8859-on-decoding-mode
@anchor{Character Translation} 
  The @dfn{character translation} feature can modify the effect of
various coding systems, by changing the internal Emacs codes that
decoding produces.  For instance, the command
@code{unify-8859-on-decoding-mode} enables a mode that ``unifies'' the
Latin alphabets when decoding text.  This works by converting all

use of the Latin-1 coding system, as well as C mode.  When you specify
the coding explicitly in the file, that overrides
@code{file-coding-system-alist}.

  If you add the character @samp{!} at the end of the coding system
name in @code{coding}, it disables any character translation
(@pxref{Character Translation}) while decoding the file.  This is
useful when you need to make sure that the character codes in the
Emacs buffer will not vary due to changes in user settings; for
instance, for the sake of strings in Emacs Lisp source files.

@node Output Coding
@section Choosing Coding Systems for Output

@vindex buffer-file-coding-system