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author | Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> | 2000-11-16 16:10:09 +0000 |
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committer | Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> | 2000-11-16 16:10:09 +0000 |
commit | b5d1e4644adfaeb0499a7d7cde67839315e935dd (patch) | |
tree | 3eecf3c1fc55c23bd5eead2ffde731d74f569ac6 /man | |
parent | 5ca425fcc9c50f37da67347bf904ff4aff4db4b7 (diff) |
Say "ISO 8859" instead of "ISO Latin", to cover non-Latin ISO-8859
character sets. Fix a typo. Add an index entry.
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-rw-r--r-- | man/basic.texi | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man/basic.texi b/man/basic.texi index c71a62205f..d92937ad17 100644 --- a/man/basic.texi +++ b/man/basic.texi @@ -91,13 +91,15 @@ mode, to give you a convenient way to insert a digit instead of overwriting with it.) @end itemize +@cindex 8-bit character codes @noindent When multibyte characters are enabled, if you specify a code in the range 0200 through 0377 octal, @kbd{C-q} assumes that you intend to use -some ISO Latin-@var{n} character set, and converts the specified code to +some ISO 8859-@var{n} character set, and converts the specified code to the corresponding Emacs character code. @xref{Enabling Multibyte}. You -select @emph{which} ISO Latin character set though your choice of -language environment (@pxref{Language Environments}). +select to @emph{which} of the ISO 8859 character sets should Emacs +convert the 8-bit code through your choice of language environment +(@pxref{Language Environments}). @vindex read-quoted-char-radix To use decimal or hexadecimal instead of octal, set the variable |