changeset 32386:d65f9772ee72

Mention the cpNNNN coding systems, with an xref to msdog.texi.
author Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
date Wed, 11 Oct 2000 17:39:01 +0000
parents ce4c7a83ed43
children 7e7aced48811
files man/mule.texi
diffstat 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/man/mule.texi	Wed Oct 11 17:08:28 2000 +0000
+++ b/man/mule.texi	Wed Oct 11 17:39:01 2000 +0000
@@ -39,6 +39,9 @@
 have been merged from the modified version of Emacs known as MULE (for
 ``MULti-lingual Enhancement to GNU Emacs'')
 
+  Emacs also supports various encodings of these characters used by
+internationalized software, such as word processors, mailers, etc.
+
 @menu
 * International Intro::     Basic concepts of multibyte characters.
 * Enabling Multibyte::      Controlling whether to use multibyte characters.
@@ -465,6 +468,11 @@
 coding systems @code{no-conversion}, @code{raw-text} and
 @code{emacs-mule} which do not convert printing characters at all.
 
+  A special class of coding systems, collectively known as
+@dfn{codepages}, is designed to support text encoded by MS-Windows and
+MS-DOS software.  To use any of these systems, you need to create it
+with @kbd{M-x codepage-setup}.  @xref{MS-DOS and MULE}.
+
 @cindex end-of-line conversion
   In addition to converting various representations of non-ASCII
 characters, a coding system can perform end-of-line conversion.  Emacs