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authorKenichi Handa2005-06-23 05:26:58 +0000
committerKenichi Handa2005-06-23 05:26:58 +0000
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(International): List all supported scripts. Adjust
text for that leim is now included in the normal Emacs distribution. (Language Environments): List all language environments. Intlfonts contains fonts for most supported scripts, not all.. (Select Input Method): Refer to C-u C-x = to see how to type to input a specifc character. (Recognize Coding): Fix typo, china-iso-8bit -> chinese-iso-8bit.
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@@ -35,11 +35,12 @@
35@cindex Dutch 35@cindex Dutch
36@cindex Spanish 36@cindex Spanish
37 Emacs supports a wide variety of international character sets, 37 Emacs supports a wide variety of international character sets,
38including European variants of the Latin alphabet, as well as Chinese, 38including European and Vietnamese variants of the Latin alphabet, as
39Cyrillic, Devanagari (Hindi and Marathi), Ethiopic, Greek, Hebrew, IPA, 39well as Cyrillic, Devanagari (for Hindi and Marathi), Ethiopic, Greek,
40Japanese, Korean, Lao, Thai, Tibetan, and Vietnamese scripts. These features 40Han (for Chinese and Japanese), Hangul (for Korean), Hebrew, IPA,
41have been merged from the modified version of Emacs known as MULE (for 41Kannada, Lao, Malayalam, Tamil, Thai, Tibetan, and Vietnamese scripts.
42``MULti-lingual Enhancement to GNU Emacs'') 42These features have been merged from the modified version of Emacs
43known as MULE (for ``MULti-lingual Enhancement to GNU Emacs'')
43 44
44 Emacs also supports various encodings of these characters used by 45 Emacs also supports various encodings of these characters used by
45other internationalized software, such as word processors and mailers. 46other internationalized software, such as word processors and mailers.
@@ -69,8 +70,7 @@ describes possible problems and explains how to solve them.
69You can insert non-@acronym{ASCII} characters or search for them. To do that, 70You can insert non-@acronym{ASCII} characters or search for them. To do that,
70you can specify an input method (@pxref{Select Input Method}) suitable 71you can specify an input method (@pxref{Select Input Method}) suitable
71for your language, or use the default input method set up when you set 72for your language, or use the default input method set up when you set
72your language environment. (Emacs input methods are part of the Leim 73your language environment. If
73package, which must be installed for you to be able to use them.) If
74your keyboard can produce non-@acronym{ASCII} characters, you can select an 74your keyboard can produce non-@acronym{ASCII} characters, you can select an
75appropriate keyboard coding system (@pxref{Specify Coding}), and Emacs 75appropriate keyboard coding system (@pxref{Specify Coding}), and Emacs
76will accept those characters. Latin-1 characters can also be input by 76will accept those characters. Latin-1 characters can also be input by
@@ -240,13 +240,19 @@ the Emacs session. The supported language environments include:
240@cindex Euro sign 240@cindex Euro sign
241@cindex UTF-8 241@cindex UTF-8
242@quotation 242@quotation
243Chinese-BIG5, Chinese-CNS, Chinese-GB, Cyrillic-ALT, Cyrillic-ISO, 243Belarusian, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Chinese-BIG5,
244Cyrillic-KOI8, Czech, Devanagari, Dutch, English, Ethiopic, German, 244Chinese-CNS, Chinese-EUC-TW, Chinese-GB, Croatian, Cyrillic-ALT,
245Greek, Hebrew, IPA, Japanese, Korean, Lao, Latin-1, Latin-2, Latin-3, 245Cyrillic-ISO, Cyrillic-KOI8, Czech, Devanagari, Dutch, English,
246Latin-4, Latin-5, Latin-8 (Celtic), Latin-9 (updated Latin-1, with the 246Ethiopic, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, IPA, Italian,
247Euro sign), Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Thai, Tibetan, 247Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Lao, Latin-1, Latin-2, Latin-3,
248Turkish, UTF-8 (for a setup which prefers Unicode characters and files 248Latin-4, Latin-5, Latin-6, Latin-7, Latin-8 (Celtic),
249encoded in UTF-8), and Vietnamese. 249Latin-9 (updated Latin-1 with the Euro sign), Latvian,
250Lithuanian, Malayalam, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak,
251Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, Thai, Tibetan,
252Turkish, UTF-8 (for a setup which prefers Unicode characters and
253files encoded in UTF-8), Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Welsh, and
254Windows-1255 (for a setup which prefers Cyrillic characters and
255files encoded in Windows-1255).
250@end quotation 256@end quotation
251 257
252@cindex fonts for various scripts 258@cindex fonts for various scripts
@@ -254,7 +260,7 @@ encoded in UTF-8), and Vietnamese.
254 To display the script(s) used by your language environment on a 260 To display the script(s) used by your language environment on a
255graphical display, you need to have a suitable font. If some of the 261graphical display, you need to have a suitable font. If some of the
256characters appear as empty boxes, you should install the GNU Intlfonts 262characters appear as empty boxes, you should install the GNU Intlfonts
257package, which includes fonts for all supported scripts.@footnote{If 263package, which includes fonts for most supported scripts.@footnote{If
258you run Emacs on X, you need to inform the X server about the location 264you run Emacs on X, you need to inform the X server about the location
259of the newly installed fonts with the following commands: 265of the newly installed fonts with the following commands:
260 266
@@ -527,7 +533,9 @@ the command @kbd{M-x quail-set-keyboard-layout}.
527@findex quail-show-key 533@findex quail-show-key
528 You can use the command @kbd{M-x quail-show-key} to show what key 534 You can use the command @kbd{M-x quail-show-key} to show what key
529(or key sequence) to type in order to input the character following 535(or key sequence) to type in order to input the character following
530point, using the selected keyboard layout. 536point, using the selected keyboard layout. The
537command @kdb{C-u C-x =} also shows that information in addition to the
538other information about the character.
531 539
532@findex list-input-methods 540@findex list-input-methods
533 To display a list of all the supported input methods, type @kbd{M-x 541 To display a list of all the supported input methods, type @kbd{M-x
@@ -736,7 +744,7 @@ example, to read and write all @samp{.txt} files using the coding system
736@code{china-iso-8bit}, you can execute this Lisp expression: 744@code{china-iso-8bit}, you can execute this Lisp expression:
737 745
738@smallexample 746@smallexample
739(modify-coding-system-alist 'file "\\.txt\\'" 'china-iso-8bit) 747(modify-coding-system-alist 'file "\\.txt\\'" 'chinese-iso-8bit)
740@end smallexample 748@end smallexample
741 749
742@noindent 750@noindent