33 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.