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diff --git a/man/msdog.texi b/man/msdog.texi index 6be4f703f79..e701ba9fc75 100644 --- a/man/msdog.texi +++ b/man/msdog.texi @@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ the clipboard, and displays in the echo area a message to that effect. @vindex dos-display-scancodes The variable @code{dos-display-scancodes}, when non-@code{nil}, -directs Emacs to display the ASCII value and the keyboard scan code of +directs Emacs to display the @acronym{ASCII} value and the keyboard scan code of each keystroke; this feature serves as a complement to the @code{view-lossage} command, for debugging. @@ -466,7 +466,7 @@ Windows to capture a specific printer port such as @code{"LPT2"}, and redirect it to a networked printer via the @w{@code{Control Panel->Printers}} applet instead of @samp{net use}. - Some printers expect DOS codepage encoding of non-ASCII text, even + Some printers expect DOS codepage encoding of non-@acronym{ASCII} text, even though they are connected to a Windows machine which uses a different encoding for the same locale. For example, in the Latin-1 locale, DOS uses codepage 850 whereas Windows uses codepage 1252. @xref{MS-DOS and @@ -594,7 +594,7 @@ Create a coding system for a certain DOS codepage. MS-DOS is designed to support one character set of 256 characters at any given time, but gives you a variety of character sets to choose from. The alternative character sets are known as @dfn{DOS codepages}. -Each codepage includes all 128 ASCII characters, but the other 128 +Each codepage includes all 128 @acronym{ASCII} characters, but the other 128 characters (codes 128 through 255) vary from one codepage to another. Each DOS codepage is identified by a 3-digit number, such as 850, 862, etc. @@ -614,7 +614,7 @@ executables on other systems such as MS-Windows. @cindex unibyte operation @r{(MS-DOS)} If you invoke Emacs on MS-DOS with the @samp{--unibyte} option (@pxref{Initial Options}), Emacs does not perform any conversion of -non-ASCII characters. Instead, it reads and writes any non-ASCII +non-@acronym{ASCII} characters. Instead, it reads and writes any non-@acronym{ASCII} characters verbatim, and sends their 8-bit codes to the display verbatim. Thus, unibyte Emacs on MS-DOS supports the current codepage, whatever it may be, but cannot even represent any other characters. @@ -668,7 +668,7 @@ language environment for that script (@pxref{Language Environments}). If a buffer contains a character belonging to some other ISO 8859 character set, not the one that the chosen DOS codepage supports, Emacs -displays it using a sequence of ASCII characters. For example, if the +displays it using a sequence of @acronym{ASCII} characters. For example, if the current codepage doesn't have a glyph for the letter @samp{@`o} (small @samp{o} with a grave accent), it is displayed as @samp{@{`o@}}, where the braces serve as a visual indication that this is a single character. @@ -843,3 +843,6 @@ subsequent commands. Many users find this frustrating. You can reenable Windows's default handling of tapping the @key{ALT} key by setting @code{w32-pass-alt-to-system} to a non-@code{nil} value. +@ignore + arch-tag: f39d2590-5dcc-4318-88d9-0eb73ca10fa2 +@end ignore |