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changeset 32386:d65f9772ee72
Mention the cpNNNN coding systems, with an xref to msdog.texi.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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| 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