coding system for certain patterns of file names, or for files
containing certain patterns; these variables even override
@samp{-*-coding:-*-} tags in the file itself. Emacs uses
-@code{auto-coding-alist} for tar and archive files, to prevent Emacs
+@code{auto-coding-alist} for tar and archive files, to prevent it
from being confused by a @samp{-*-coding:-*-} tag in a member of the
archive and thinking it applies to the archive file as a whole.
Likewise, Emacs uses @code{auto-coding-regexp-alist} to ensure that
encode all of the characters in the buffer, Emacs uses it, and stores
its value in @code{buffer-file-coding-system}. Otherwise, Emacs
displays a list of coding systems suitable for encoding the buffer's
-contents, and asks to choose one of those coding systems.
+contents, and asks you to choose one of those coding systems.
If you insert the unsuitable characters in a mail message, Emacs
behaves a bit differently. It additionally checks whether the
not recommended and prompts you for another coding system. This is so
you won't inadvertently send a message encoded in a way that your
recipient's mail software will have difficulty decoding. (If you do
-want to use the most-preferred coding system, you can type its name to
-Emacs prompt anyway.)
+want to use the most-preferred coding system, you can still type its
+name to Emacs prompt.)
@vindex sendmail-coding-system
When you send a message with Mail mode (@pxref{Sending Mail}), Emacs has
@cindex 8-bit input
@item
If your keyboard can generate character codes 128 and up, representing
-non-ASCII you can type those character codes directly.
+non-ASCII characters, you can type those character codes directly.
On a windowing terminal, you should not need to do anything special to
use these keys; they should simply work. On a text-only terminal, you
@cindex Latin-1, Latin-2 and Latin-3 input mode
For Latin-1, Latin-2 and Latin-3, @kbd{M-x iso-accents-mode} installs
a minor mode which works much like the @code{latin-1-prefix} input
-method does not depend on having the input methods installed. This
+method, but does not depend on having the input methods installed. This
mode is buffer-local. It can be customized for various languages with
@kbd{M-x iso-accents-customize}.
@end itemize