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This chapter covers the special issues relating to characters and how they are stored in strings and buffers.
| • Text Representations: | How Emacs represents text. | |
| • Disabling Multibyte: | Controlling whether to use multibyte characters. | |
| • Converting Representations: | Converting unibyte to multibyte and vice versa. | |
| • Selecting a Representation: | Treating a byte sequence as unibyte or multi. | |
| • Character Codes: | How unibyte and multibyte relate to codes of individual characters. | |
| • Character Properties: | Character attributes that define their behavior and handling. | |
| • Character Sets: | The space of possible character codes is divided into various character sets. | |
| • Scanning Charsets: | Which character sets are used in a buffer? | |
| • Translation of Characters: | Translation tables are used for conversion. | |
| • Coding Systems: | Coding systems are conversions for saving files. | |
| • Input Methods: | Input methods allow users to enter various non-ASCII characters without special keyboards. | |
| • Locales: | Interacting with the POSIX locale. |