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changeset 31023:b72f53ea6c54
Document list-charset-chars.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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| date | Tue, 22 Aug 2000 08:36:51 +0000 |
| parents | 2fa78512b45e |
| children | 147670916de0 |
| files | man/mule.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/man/mule.texi Tue Aug 22 08:30:39 2000 +0000 +++ b/man/mule.texi Tue Aug 22 08:36:51 2000 +0000 @@ -52,15 +52,15 @@ @node International Intro @section Introduction to International Character Sets - The users of these scripts have established many more-or-less standard -coding systems for storing files. Emacs internally uses a single -multibyte character encoding, so that it can intermix characters from -all these scripts in a single buffer or string. This encoding -represents each non-ASCII character as a sequence of bytes in the range -0200 through 0377. Emacs translates between the multibyte character -encoding and various other coding systems when reading and writing -files, when exchanging data with subprocesses, and (in some cases) in -the @kbd{C-q} command (@pxref{Multibyte Conversion}). + The users of international character sets and scripts have established +many more-or-less standard coding systems for storing files. Emacs +internally uses a single multibyte character encoding, so that it can +intermix characters from all these scripts in a single buffer or string. +This encoding represents each non-ASCII character as a sequence of bytes +in the range 0200 through 0377. Emacs translates between the multibyte +character encoding and various other coding systems when reading and +writing files, when exchanging data with subprocesses, and (in some +cases) in the @kbd{C-q} command (@pxref{Multibyte Conversion}). @kindex C-h h @findex view-hello-file @@ -70,6 +70,11 @@ characters for all those different languages, you will see some hollow boxes instead of characters; see @ref{Fontsets}. +@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. + Keyboards, even in the countries where these character sets are used, generally don't have keys for all the characters in them. So Emacs supports various @dfn{input methods}, typically one for each script or