From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 08:36:51 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Document list-charset-chars. X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-21.0.90~2116 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2565a55e977927cc504dbcff600b69fd0a79dda2;p=emacs.git Document list-charset-chars. --- diff --git a/man/mule.texi b/man/mule.texi index d8b9265d9c8..623dad8b547 100644 --- a/man/mule.texi +++ b/man/mule.texi @@ -52,15 +52,15 @@ have been merged from the modified version of Emacs known as MULE (for @node International Intro @section Introduction to International Character Sets - The users of these scripts have established many more-or-less standard -coding systems for storing files. Emacs internally uses a single -multibyte character encoding, so that it can intermix characters from -all these scripts in a single buffer or string. This encoding -represents each non-ASCII character as a sequence of bytes in the range -0200 through 0377. Emacs translates between the multibyte character -encoding and various other coding systems when reading and writing -files, when exchanging data with subprocesses, and (in some cases) in -the @kbd{C-q} command (@pxref{Multibyte Conversion}). + The users of international character sets and scripts have established +many more-or-less standard coding systems for storing files. Emacs +internally uses a single multibyte character encoding, so that it can +intermix characters from all these scripts in a single buffer or string. +This encoding represents each non-ASCII character as a sequence of bytes +in the range 0200 through 0377. Emacs translates between the multibyte +character encoding and various other coding systems when reading and +writing files, when exchanging data with subprocesses, and (in some +cases) in the @kbd{C-q} command (@pxref{Multibyte Conversion}). @kindex C-h h @findex view-hello-file @@ -70,6 +70,11 @@ This illustrates various scripts. If the font you're using doesn't have characters for all those different languages, you will see some hollow boxes instead of characters; see @ref{Fontsets}. +@findex list-charset-chars +@cindex characters in a certain charset + The command @kbd{M-x list-charset-chars} prompts for a name of a +character set, and displays all the characters in that character set. + Keyboards, even in the countries where these character sets are used, generally don't have keys for all the characters in them. So Emacs supports various @dfn{input methods}, typically one for each script or