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 <h2 class="chapter">Non-ASCII Characters</h2>    <p>This chapter covers the special issues relating to characters and how they are stored in strings and buffers. </p> <table class="menu" border="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr>
<td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="text-representations" accesskey="1">Text Representations</a>
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<td align="left" valign="top">How Emacs represents text. </td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="disabling-multibyte" accesskey="2">Disabling Multibyte</a>
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<td align="left" valign="top">Controlling whether to use multibyte characters. </td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="converting-representations" accesskey="3">Converting Representations</a>
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<td align="left" valign="top">Converting unibyte to multibyte and vice versa. </td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="selecting-a-representation" accesskey="4">Selecting a Representation</a>
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<td align="left" valign="top">Treating a byte sequence as unibyte or multi. </td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="character-codes" accesskey="5">Character Codes</a>
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<td align="left" valign="top">How unibyte and multibyte relate to codes of individual characters. </td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="character-properties" accesskey="6">Character Properties</a>
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<td align="left" valign="top">Character attributes that define their behavior and handling. </td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="character-sets" accesskey="7">Character Sets</a>
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<td align="left" valign="top">The space of possible character codes is divided into various character sets. </td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="scanning-charsets" accesskey="8">Scanning Charsets</a>
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<td align="left" valign="top">Which character sets are used in a buffer? </td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="translation-of-characters" accesskey="9">Translation of Characters</a>
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<td align="left" valign="top">Translation tables are used for conversion. </td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="coding-systems">Coding Systems</a>
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<td align="left" valign="top">Coding systems are conversions for saving files. </td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="input-methods">Input Methods</a>
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<td align="left" valign="top">Input methods allow users to enter various non-ASCII characters without special keyboards. </td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="locales">Locales</a>
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<td align="left" valign="top">Interacting with the POSIX locale. </td>
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