MS-DOS software. To use any of these systems, you need to create it
with @kbd{M-x codepage-setup}. @xref{MS-DOS and MULE}.
-@cindex end-of-line conversion
In addition to converting various representations of non-ASCII
characters, a coding system can perform end-of-line conversion. Emacs
handles three different conventions for how to separate lines in a file:
@cindex accented characters
@cindex ISO Latin character sets
@cindex Unibyte operation
-@vindex enable-multibyte-characters
The ISO 8859 Latin-@var{n} character sets define character codes in
the range 160 to 255 to handle the accented letters and punctuation
needed by various European languages (and some non-European ones).
@itemize @bullet
@cindex 8-bit input
@item
-@findex set-keyboard-coding-system
-@vindex keyboard-coding-system
If your keyboard can generate character codes 128 and up, representing
non-ASCII you can type those character codes directly.