characters, generally known as Big 5, is divided into two Emacs
character sets, @code{chinese-big5-1} and @code{chinese-big5-2}.
+ @sc{ascii} characters are in character set @code{ascii}. The
+non-@sc{ascii} characters 128 through 159 are in character set
+@code{eight-bit-control}, and codes 160 through 255 are in character set
+@code{eight-bit-graphic}.
+
@defun charsetp object
Returns @code{t} if @var{object} is a symbol that names a character set,
@code{nil} otherwise.
is non-@code{nil}, then each character in the region is translated
through this table, and the value returned describes the translated
characters instead of the characters actually in the buffer.
-
-When a buffer contains non-@sc{ascii} characters, codes 128 through 255,
-they are assigned the character set @code{unknown}. @xref{Explicit
-Encoding}.
@end defun
@defun find-charset-string string &optional translation