have been merged from the modified version of Emacs known as MULE (for
``MULti-lingual Enhancement to GNU Emacs'')
+ Emacs also supports various encodings of these characters used by
+internationalized software, such as word processors, mailers, etc.
+
@menu
* International Intro:: Basic concepts of multibyte characters.
* Enabling Multibyte:: Controlling whether to use multibyte characters.
coding systems @code{no-conversion}, @code{raw-text} and
@code{emacs-mule} which do not convert printing characters at all.
+ A special class of coding systems, collectively known as
+@dfn{codepages}, is designed to support text encoded by MS-Windows and
+MS-DOS software. To use any of these systems, you need to create it
+with @kbd{M-x codepage-setup}. @xref{MS-DOS and MULE}.
+
@cindex end-of-line conversion
In addition to converting various representations of non-ASCII
characters, a coding system can perform end-of-line conversion. Emacs