Mercurial > emacs
changeset 37198:12c496043cb0
(Init Syntax): Mention the -*-coding:-*- tag if .emacs uses non-ASCII
characters in strings.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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| date | Wed, 04 Apr 2001 14:11:05 +0000 |
| parents | 7b4fa0c2ad35 |
| children | 22964e38f4c2 |
| files | man/custom.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/man/custom.texi Wed Apr 04 14:09:12 2001 +0000 +++ b/man/custom.texi Wed Apr 04 14:11:05 2001 +0000 @@ -2088,6 +2088,16 @@ a Meta character, as in @samp{\M-a} for @kbd{Meta-A} or @samp{\M-\C-a} for @kbd{Control-Meta-A}.@refill +@cindex international characters in @file{.emacs} +@cindex non-ASCII characters in @file{.emacs} +If you want to include non-ASCII characters in strings in your init +file, you should consider putting a @samp{-*- coding: -*-} tag on the +first line which states the coding system used to save your +@file{.emacs}, as explained in @ref{Recognize Coding}. This is +because the defaults for decoding non-ASCII text might not yet be set +up by the time Emacs reads those parts of your init file which use +such strings, and Emacs might decode those strings incorrectly. + @item Characters: Lisp character constant syntax consists of a @samp{?} followed by either a character or an escape sequence starting with @samp{\}.