33.10.8 Terminal I/O Encoding

Emacs can decode keyboard input using a coding system, and encode terminal output. This is useful for terminals that transmit or display text using a particular encoding such as Latin-1. Emacs does not set last-coding-system-used for encoding or decoding for the terminal.

Function: keyboard-coding-system

This function returns the coding system that is in use for decoding keyboard input--or nil if no coding system is to be used.

Function: set-keyboard-coding-system coding-system

This function specifies coding-system as the coding system to use for decoding keyboard input. If coding-system is nil, that means do not decode keyboard input.

Function: terminal-coding-system

This function returns the coding system that is in use for encoding terminal output--or nil for no encoding.

Function: set-terminal-coding-system coding-system

This function specifies coding-system as the coding system to use for encoding terminal output. If coding-system is nil, that means do not encode terminal output.