33. Non-ASCII Characters

This chapter covers the special issues relating to non-ASCII characters and how they are stored in strings and buffers.

33.1 Text Representations		Unibyte and multibyte representations
33.2 Converting Text Representations		Converting unibyte to multibyte and vice versa.
33.3 Selecting a Representation		Treating a byte sequence as unibyte or multi.
33.4 Character Codes		How unibyte and multibyte relate to codes of individual characters.
33.5 Character Sets		The space of possible characters codes is divided into various character sets.
33.6 Characters and Bytes		More information about multibyte encodings.
33.7 Splitting Characters		Converting a character to its byte sequence.
33.8 Scanning for Character Sets		Which character sets are used in a buffer?
33.9 Translation of Characters		Translation tables are used for conversion.
33.10 Coding Systems		Coding systems are conversions for saving files.
33.11 Input Methods		Input methods allow users to enter various non-ASCII characters without special keyboards.
33.12 Locales		Interacting with the POSIX locale.