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Add cross-reference to alternative syntaxes for Unicode

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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.
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Robert Pluim
2022-10-14 17:12:02 +02:00
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@@ -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