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changeset 46204:dfc0a989ae61
Document unify-8859-on-decoding-mode.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Sun, 07 Jul 2002 11:22:29 +0000 |
| parents | 09a72d736076 |
| children | 6676ac71682b |
| files | man/mule.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/man/mule.texi Sun Jul 07 11:15:33 2002 +0000 +++ b/man/mule.texi Sun Jul 07 11:22:29 2002 +0000 @@ -814,6 +814,15 @@ the file, look at the coding system mnemonic letter near the left edge of the mode line (@pxref{Mode Line}), or type @kbd{C-h C @key{RET}}. +@findex unify-8859-on-decoding-mode + The command @code{unify-8859-on-decoding-mode} enables a mode that +``unifies'' the Latin alphabets when decoding text. This works by +converting all non-ASCII Latin-@var{n} characters to either Latin-1 or +Unicode characters. This way it is easier to use various +Latin-@var{n} alphabets together. In a future Emacs version we hope +to move towards full Unicode support and complete unification of +character sets. + @vindex buffer-file-coding-system Once Emacs has chosen a coding system for a buffer, it stores that coding system in @code{buffer-file-coding-system} and uses that coding