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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