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| author | Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> | 2022-10-14 17:12:02 +0200 |
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| committer | Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> | 2022-10-14 17:14:32 +0200 |
| commit | b7d7c2d9e98ffd3c01e2276d8aaaaf9bcc6f2d1c (patch) | |
| tree | 5bdf3b3301a3447e9cda91a9f2146690bae693d4 | |
| parent | 85e47d9a9e809b7278fa6dc282ecb4a7a8f54690 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-b7d7c2d9e98ffd3c01e2276d8aaaaf9bcc6f2d1c.tar.gz | |
Add cross-reference to alternative syntaxes for Unicode
These alternative syntaxes allow you to specify Unicode codepoints
using only ASCII, which helps avoid decoding issues.
* doc/emacs/custom.texi (Init Non-ASCII): Add cross reference to
"General Escape Syntax" in the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/emacs/custom.texi | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/emacs/custom.texi b/doc/emacs/custom.texi index 2d63b2a7175..2bc1d3820d1 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/custom.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/custom.texi @@ -2792,6 +2792,12 @@ strings incorrectly. You should then avoid adding Emacs Lisp code that modifies the coding system in other ways, such as calls to @code{set-language-environment}. + An alternative to using non-@acronym{ASCII} characters directly is +to use one of the character escape syntaxes described in +@pxref{General Escape Syntax,,, elisp, The Emacs Lisp Reference +Manual}, as they allow all Unicode codepoints to be specified using +only @acronym{ASCII} characters. + To bind non-@acronym{ASCII} keys, you must use a vector (@pxref{Init Rebinding}). The string syntax cannot be used, since the non-@acronym{ASCII} characters will be interpreted as meta keys. For |