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    > My memory doesn't recall any others, but I wouldn't want to rely on it.
    > What others do you know of?

    coding-system, charset, fontset?

It would be useful to have brief information about all of these,
in that chapter.  It doesn't need to say much, and perhaps these
all work the same way, so a single section could describe them all.