load a Lisp file as unibyte, on any one occasion, by typing @kbd{C-x
@key{RET} c raw-text @key{RET}} immediately before loading it.
- The mode line indicates whether multibyte character support is enabled
-in the current buffer. If it is, there are two or more characters (most
-often two dashes) before the colon near the beginning of the mode line.
-When multibyte characters are not enabled, nothing precedes the colon
-except a single dash.
+ The mode line indicates whether multibyte character support is
+enabled in the current buffer. If it is, there are two or more
+characters (most often two dashes) near the beginning of the mode
+line, before the indication of the visited file's end-of-line
+convention (colon, backslash, etc.). When multibyte characters
+are not enabled, nothing precedes the colon except a single dash.
+@xref{Mode Line}, for more details about this.
@node Language Environments
@section Language Environments