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diff man/mule.texi @ 33745:78ec4a7ba765
(Undisplayable Characters): New node.
Tweaks elsewhere.
author | Dave Love <fx@gnu.org> |
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date | Wed, 22 Nov 2000 14:04:22 +0000 |
parents | d65f9772ee72 |
children | a80251dea213 |
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--- a/man/mule.texi Wed Nov 22 13:55:24 2000 +0000 +++ b/man/mule.texi Wed Nov 22 14:04:22 2000 +0000 @@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ * Fontsets:: Fontsets are collections of fonts that cover the whole spectrum of characters. * 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. @@ -80,7 +81,8 @@ @file{etc/HELLO}, which shows how to say ``hello'' in many languages. This illustrates various scripts. If the font you're using doesn't have characters for all those different languages, you will see some hollow -boxes instead of characters; see @ref{Fontsets}. +boxes instead of characters; see @ref{Fontsets}. On non-windowing +displays, @samp{?} is displayed in place of the hollow box. @findex list-charset-chars @cindex characters in a certain charset @@ -187,7 +189,7 @@ current when you use this command, because the effects apply globally to the Emacs session. The supported language environments include: -@cindex euro sign +@cindex Euro sign @quotation Chinese-BIG5, Chinese-CNS, Chinese-GB, Cyrillic-ALT, Cyrillic-ISO, Cyrillic-KOI8, Czech, Devanagari, English, Ethiopic, German, Greek, @@ -208,6 +210,7 @@ @findex set-locale-environment @vindex locale-language-names @vindex locale-charset-language-names +@cindex locales Some operating systems let you specify the language you are using by setting the locale environment variables @env{LC_ALL}, @env{LC_CTYPE}, and @env{LANG}; the first of these which is nonempty specifies your @@ -433,7 +436,7 @@ through 0377 (octal) are not really legitimate in the buffer. The valid non-ASCII printing characters have codes that start from 0400. - If you type a self-inserting character in the invalid range 0240 + If you type a self-inserting character in the range 0240 through 0377, Emacs assumes you intended to use one of the ISO Latin-@var{n} character sets, and converts it to the Emacs code representing that Latin-@var{n} character. You select @emph{which} ISO @@ -447,7 +450,12 @@ If you do not specify a choice, the default is Latin-1. The same thing happens when you use @kbd{C-q} to enter an octal code -in this range. +in this range. If you enter a code in the range 0200 through 0237, +which forms the @code{eight-bit-control} character set, it is inserted +literally. You should normally avoid doing this since buffers +containing such characters have to be written out in either the +@code{emacs-mule} or @code{raw-text} coding system, which is usually not +what you want. @node Coding Systems @section Coding Systems @@ -830,7 +838,8 @@ Emacs knows which characters the terminal can actually handle. By default, output to the terminal is not translated at all, unless -Emacs can deduce the proper coding system from your terminal type. +Emacs can deduce the proper coding system from your terminal type or +your locale specification (@pxref{Language Environments}). @kindex C-x RET k @findex set-keyboard-coding-system @@ -923,7 +932,8 @@ course, Emacs fontsets can use only the fonts that the X server supports; if certain characters appear on the screen as hollow boxes, this means that the fontset in use for them has no font for those -characters. +characters.@footnote{The installation instructions have information on +additional font support.} Emacs creates two fontsets automatically: the @dfn{standard fontset} and the @dfn{startup fontset}. The standard fontset is most likely to @@ -1077,6 +1087,27 @@ @xref{Font X}, for more information about font naming in X. +@node Undisplayable Characters +@section Undisplayable Characters + +Your terminal may not be able to display some non-@sc{ascii} characters. +Most non-windowing terminals can only use a single character set, +specified by the variable @code{default-terminal-coding-system} +(@pxref{Specify Coding}) and characters which can't be encoded in it are +displayed as @samp{?} by default. Windowing terminals may not have the +necessary font available to display a given character and display a +hollow box instead. You can change the default behavior. + +If you use Latin-1 characters but your terminal can't display Latin-1, +you can arrange to display mnemonic @sc{ascii} sequences instead, e.g.@: +@samp{"o} for o-umlaut. Load the library @file{iso-ascii} to do this. + +If your terminal can display Latin-1, you can display characters from +other European character sets using a mixture of equivalent Latin-1 +characters and @sc{ascii} mnemonics. Use the Custom option +@code{latin1-display} to enable this. The mnemonic @sc{ascii} sequences +mostly correspond to those of the prefix input methods. + @node Single-Byte Character Support @section Single-byte Character Set Support