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35  @cindex Dutch  @cindex Dutch
36  @cindex Spanish  @cindex Spanish
37    Emacs supports a wide variety of international character sets,    Emacs supports a wide variety of international character sets,
38  including European variants of the Latin alphabet, as well as Chinese,  including European and Vietnamese variants of the Latin alphabet, as
39  Cyrillic, Devanagari (Hindi and Marathi), Ethiopic, Greek, Hebrew, IPA,  well as Cyrillic, Devanagari (for Hindi and Marathi), Ethiopic, Greek,
40  Japanese, Korean, Lao, Thai, Tibetan, and Vietnamese scripts.  These features  Han (for Chinese and Japanese), Hangul (for Korean), Hebrew, IPA,
41  have been merged from the modified version of Emacs known as MULE (for  Kannada, Lao, Malayalam, Tamil, Thai, Tibetan, and Vietnamese scripts.
42  ``MULti-lingual Enhancement to GNU Emacs'')  These features have been merged from the modified version of Emacs
43    known as MULE (for ``MULti-lingual Enhancement to GNU Emacs'')
44    
45    Emacs also supports various encodings of these characters used by    Emacs also supports various encodings of these characters used by
46  other internationalized software, such as word processors and mailers.  other internationalized software, such as word processors and mailers.
# Line 69  describes possible problems and explains Line 70  describes possible problems and explains
70  You can insert non-@acronym{ASCII} characters or search for them.  To do that,  You can insert non-@acronym{ASCII} characters or search for them.  To do that,
71  you can specify an input method (@pxref{Select Input Method}) suitable  you can specify an input method (@pxref{Select Input Method}) suitable
72  for your language, or use the default input method set up when you set  for your language, or use the default input method set up when you set
73  your language environment.  (Emacs input methods are part of the Leim  your language environment.  If
 package, which must be installed for you to be able to use them.)  If  
74  your keyboard can produce non-@acronym{ASCII} characters, you can select an  your keyboard can produce non-@acronym{ASCII} characters, you can select an
75  appropriate keyboard coding system (@pxref{Specify Coding}), and Emacs  appropriate keyboard coding system (@pxref{Specify Coding}), and Emacs
76  will accept those characters.  Latin-1 characters can also be input by  will accept those characters.  Latin-1 characters can also be input by
# Line 240  the Emacs session.  The supported langua Line 240  the Emacs session.  The supported langua
240  @cindex Euro sign  @cindex Euro sign
241  @cindex UTF-8  @cindex UTF-8
242  @quotation  @quotation
243  Chinese-BIG5, Chinese-CNS, Chinese-GB, Cyrillic-ALT, Cyrillic-ISO,  Belarusian, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Chinese-BIG5,
244  Cyrillic-KOI8, Czech, Devanagari, Dutch, English, Ethiopic, German,  Chinese-CNS, Chinese-EUC-TW, Chinese-GB, Croatian, Cyrillic-ALT,
245  Greek, Hebrew, IPA, Japanese, Korean, Lao, Latin-1, Latin-2, Latin-3,  Cyrillic-ISO, Cyrillic-KOI8, Czech, Devanagari, Dutch, English,
246  Latin-4, Latin-5, Latin-8 (Celtic), Latin-9 (updated Latin-1, with the  Ethiopic, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, IPA, Italian,
247  Euro sign), Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Thai, Tibetan,  Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Lao, Latin-1, Latin-2, Latin-3,
248  Turkish, UTF-8 (for a setup which prefers Unicode characters and files  Latin-4, Latin-5, Latin-6, Latin-7, Latin-8 (Celtic),
249  encoded in UTF-8), and Vietnamese.  Latin-9 (updated Latin-1 with the Euro sign), Latvian,
250    Lithuanian, Malayalam, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak,
251    Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, Thai, Tibetan,
252    Turkish, UTF-8 (for a setup which prefers Unicode characters and
253    files encoded in UTF-8), Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Welsh, and
254    Windows-1255 (for a setup which prefers Cyrillic characters and
255    files encoded in Windows-1255).
256  @end quotation  @end quotation
257    
258  @cindex fonts for various scripts  @cindex fonts for various scripts
# Line 254  encoded in UTF-8), and Vietnamese. Line 260  encoded in UTF-8), and Vietnamese.
260    To display the script(s) used by your language environment on a    To display the script(s) used by your language environment on a
261  graphical display, you need to have a suitable font.  If some of the  graphical display, you need to have a suitable font.  If some of the
262  characters appear as empty boxes, you should install the GNU Intlfonts  characters appear as empty boxes, you should install the GNU Intlfonts
263  package, which includes fonts for all supported scripts.@footnote{If  package, which includes fonts for most supported scripts.@footnote{If
264  you run Emacs on X, you need to inform the X server about the location  you run Emacs on X, you need to inform the X server about the location
265  of the newly installed fonts with the following commands:  of the newly installed fonts with the following commands:
266    
# Line 527  the command @kbd{M-x quail-set-keyboard- Line 533  the command @kbd{M-x quail-set-keyboard-
533  @findex quail-show-key  @findex quail-show-key
534    You can use the command @kbd{M-x quail-show-key} to show what key    You can use the command @kbd{M-x quail-show-key} to show what key
535  (or key sequence) to type in order to input the character following  (or key sequence) to type in order to input the character following
536  point, using the selected keyboard layout.  point, using the selected keyboard layout.  The
537    command @kdb{C-u C-x =} also shows that information in addition to the
538    other information about the character.
539    
540  @findex list-input-methods  @findex list-input-methods
541    To display a list of all the supported input methods, type @kbd{M-x    To display a list of all the supported input methods, type @kbd{M-x
# Line 736  example, to read and write all @samp{.tx Line 744  example, to read and write all @samp{.tx
744  @code{china-iso-8bit}, you can execute this Lisp expression:  @code{china-iso-8bit}, you can execute this Lisp expression:
745    
746  @smallexample  @smallexample
747  (modify-coding-system-alist 'file "\\.txt\\'" 'china-iso-8bit)  (modify-coding-system-alist 'file "\\.txt\\'" 'chinese-iso-8bit)
748  @end smallexample  @end smallexample
749    
750  @noindent  @noindent

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