@node Undisplayable Characters
@section Undisplayable Characters
- Your terminal may be unable to display some non-@sc{ascii}
+ Your terminal may be unable to display some non-ASCII
characters. Most non-windowing terminals can only use a single
character set (use the variable @code{default-terminal-coding-system}
(@pxref{Specify Coding}) to tell Emacs which one); characters which
no font appear as a hollow box.
If you use Latin-1 characters but your terminal can't display
-Latin-1, you can arrange to display mnemonic @sc{ascii} sequences
+Latin-1, you can arrange to display mnemonic ASCII sequences
instead, e.g.@: @samp{"o} for o-umlaut. Load the library
@file{iso-ascii} to do this.