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Non-ASCII Characters

This chapter covers the special issues relating to characters and how they are stored in strings and buffers.

• Text Representations:		How Emacs represents text.
• Disabling Multibyte:		Controlling whether to use multibyte characters.
• Converting Representations:		Converting unibyte to multibyte and vice versa.
• Selecting a Representation:		Treating a byte sequence as unibyte or multi.
• Character Codes:		How unibyte and multibyte relate to codes of individual characters.
• Character Properties:		Character attributes that define their behavior and handling.
• Character Sets:		The space of possible character codes is divided into various character sets.
• Scanning Charsets:		Which character sets are used in a buffer?
• Translation of Characters:		Translation tables are used for conversion.
• Coding Systems:		Coding systems are conversions for saving files.
• Input Methods:		Input methods allow users to enter various non-ASCII characters without special keyboards.
• Locales:		Interacting with the POSIX locale.