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Non-ASCII Characters
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   This chapter covers the special issues relating to non-ASCII
characters and how they are stored in strings and buffers.

Text Representations
Unibyte and multibyte representations
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 Sets
The space of possible characters codes
is divided into various character sets.
Chars and Bytes
More information about multibyte encodings.
Splitting Characters
Converting a character to its byte sequence.
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 speciak keyboards.
Locales
Interacting with the POSIX locale.

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