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25829 | 1 @c This is part of the Emacs manual. |
31077 | 2 @c Copyright (C) 1997, 1999, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
25829 | 3 @c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions. |
4 @node International, Major Modes, Frames, Top | |
5 @chapter International Character Set Support | |
6 @cindex MULE | |
7 @cindex international scripts | |
8 @cindex multibyte characters | |
9 @cindex encoding of characters | |
10 | |
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11 @cindex Celtic |
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13 @cindex Cyrillic |
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14 @cindex Czech |
25829 | 15 @cindex Devanagari |
16 @cindex Hindi | |
17 @cindex Marathi | |
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18 @cindex Ethiopic |
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19 @cindex German |
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21 @cindex Hebrew |
25829 | 22 @cindex IPA |
23 @cindex Japanese | |
24 @cindex Korean | |
25 @cindex Lao | |
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26 @cindex Latin |
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27 @cindex Polish |
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28 @cindex Romanian |
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29 @cindex Slovak |
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30 @cindex Slovenian |
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32 @cindex Tibetan | |
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33 @cindex Turkish |
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36 @cindex Spanish | |
25829 | 37 Emacs supports a wide variety of international character sets, |
38 including European variants of the Latin alphabet, as well as Chinese, | |
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39 Cyrillic, Devanagari (Hindi and Marathi), Ethiopic, Greek, Hebrew, IPA, |
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40 Japanese, Korean, Lao, Thai, Tibetan, and Vietnamese scripts. These features |
25829 | 41 have been merged from the modified version of Emacs known as MULE (for |
42 ``MULti-lingual Enhancement to GNU Emacs'') | |
43 | |
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45 internationalized software, such as word processors, mailers, etc. |
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25829 | 47 @menu |
48 * International Intro:: Basic concepts of multibyte characters. | |
49 * Enabling Multibyte:: Controlling whether to use multibyte characters. | |
50 * Language Environments:: Setting things up for the language you use. | |
51 * Input Methods:: Entering text characters not on your keyboard. | |
52 * Select Input Method:: Specifying your choice of input methods. | |
53 * Multibyte Conversion:: How single-byte characters convert to multibyte. | |
54 * Coding Systems:: Character set conversion when you read and | |
55 write files, and so on. | |
56 * Recognize Coding:: How Emacs figures out which conversion to use. | |
57 * Specify Coding:: Various ways to choose which conversion to use. | |
58 * Fontsets:: Fontsets are collections of fonts | |
59 that cover the whole spectrum of characters. | |
60 * Defining Fontsets:: Defining a new fontset. | |
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62 * Single-Byte Character Support:: |
25829 | 63 You can pick one European character set |
64 to use without multibyte characters. | |
65 @end menu | |
66 | |
67 @node International Intro | |
68 @section Introduction to International Character Sets | |
69 | |
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70 The users of international character sets and scripts have established |
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71 many more-or-less standard coding systems for storing files. Emacs |
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74 This encoding represents each non-ASCII character as a sequence of bytes |
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75 in the range 0200 through 0377. Emacs translates between the multibyte |
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77 writing files, when exchanging data with subprocesses, and (in some |
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78 cases) in the @kbd{C-q} command (@pxref{Multibyte Conversion}). |
25829 | 79 |
80 @kindex C-h h | |
81 @findex view-hello-file | |
35206 | 82 @cindex undisplayable characters |
83 @cindex ? | |
84 @cindex ?? | |
25829 | 85 The command @kbd{C-h h} (@code{view-hello-file}) displays the file |
86 @file{etc/HELLO}, which shows how to say ``hello'' in many languages. | |
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35206 | 90 displays, @samp{?} is displayed in place of the hollow box. More than |
91 one @samp{?} is displayed for undisplayable characters that are wider | |
92 than one column. | |
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100 @cindex character set, description |
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101 The command @kbd{M-x describe-character-set} prompts for a character |
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102 set name and displays information about that character set, including |
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25829 | 105 Keyboards, even in the countries where these character sets are used, |
106 generally don't have keys for all the characters in them. So Emacs | |
107 supports various @dfn{input methods}, typically one for each script or | |
108 language, to make it convenient to type them. | |
109 | |
110 @kindex C-x RET | |
111 The prefix key @kbd{C-x @key{RET}} is used for commands that pertain | |
112 to multibyte characters, coding systems, and input methods. | |
113 | |
114 @node Enabling Multibyte | |
115 @section Enabling Multibyte Characters | |
116 | |
117 You can enable or disable multibyte character support, either for | |
118 Emacs as a whole, or for a single buffer. When multibyte characters are | |
119 disabled in a buffer, then each byte in that buffer represents a | |
120 character, even codes 0200 through 0377. The old features for | |
121 supporting the European character sets, ISO Latin-1 and ISO Latin-2, | |
122 work as they did in Emacs 19 and also work for the other ISO 8859 | |
123 character sets. | |
124 | |
125 However, there is no need to turn off multibyte character support to | |
126 use ISO Latin; the Emacs multibyte character set includes all the | |
127 characters in these character sets, and Emacs can translate | |
128 automatically to and from the ISO codes. | |
129 | |
130 To edit a particular file in unibyte representation, visit it using | |
131 @code{find-file-literally}. @xref{Visiting}. To convert a buffer in | |
132 multibyte representation into a single-byte representation of the same | |
133 characters, the easiest way is to save the contents in a file, kill the | |
134 buffer, and find the file again with @code{find-file-literally}. You | |
135 can also use @kbd{C-x @key{RET} c} | |
136 (@code{universal-coding-system-argument}) and specify @samp{raw-text} as | |
137 the coding system with which to find or save a file. @xref{Specify | |
138 Coding}. Finding a file as @samp{raw-text} doesn't disable format | |
139 conversion, uncompression and auto mode selection as | |
140 @code{find-file-literally} does. | |
141 | |
142 @vindex enable-multibyte-characters | |
143 @vindex default-enable-multibyte-characters | |
144 To turn off multibyte character support by default, start Emacs with | |
145 the @samp{--unibyte} option (@pxref{Initial Options}), or set the | |
29107 | 146 environment variable @env{EMACS_UNIBYTE}. You can also customize |
25829 | 147 @code{enable-multibyte-characters} or, equivalently, directly set the |
148 variable @code{default-enable-multibyte-characters} in your init file to | |
149 have basically the same effect as @samp{--unibyte}. | |
150 | |
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154 @cindex init file, and non-ASCII characters |
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155 @cindex environment variables, and non-ASCII characters |
25829 | 156 Multibyte strings are not created during initialization from the |
157 values of environment variables, @file{/etc/passwd} entries etc.@: that | |
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160 @file{.emacs}, are normally read as multibyte---even with |
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167 The mode line indicates whether multibyte character support is enabled | |
168 in the current buffer. If it is, there are two or more characters (most | |
169 often two dashes) before the colon near the beginning of the mode line. | |
170 When multibyte characters are not enabled, just one dash precedes the | |
171 colon. | |
172 | |
173 @node Language Environments | |
174 @section Language Environments | |
175 @cindex language environments | |
176 | |
177 All supported character sets are supported in Emacs buffers whenever | |
178 multibyte characters are enabled; there is no need to select a | |
179 particular language in order to display its characters in an Emacs | |
180 buffer. However, it is important to select a @dfn{language environment} | |
181 in order to set various defaults. The language environment really | |
182 represents a choice of preferred script (more or less) rather than a | |
183 choice of language. | |
184 | |
185 The language environment controls which coding systems to recognize | |
186 when reading text (@pxref{Recognize Coding}). This applies to files, | |
187 incoming mail, netnews, and any other text you read into Emacs. It may | |
188 also specify the default coding system to use when you create a file. | |
189 Each language environment also specifies a default input method. | |
190 | |
191 @findex set-language-environment | |
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193 To select a language environment, customize the option |
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194 @code{current-language-environment} or use the command @kbd{M-x |
25829 | 195 set-language-environment}. It makes no difference which buffer is |
196 current when you use this command, because the effects apply globally to | |
197 the Emacs session. The supported language environments include: | |
198 | |
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199 @cindex Euro sign |
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201 Chinese-BIG5, Chinese-CNS, Chinese-GB, Cyrillic-ALT, Cyrillic-ISO, |
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202 Cyrillic-KOI8, Czech, Devanagari, English, Ethiopic, German, Greek, |
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203 Hebrew, IPA, Japanese, Korean, Lao, Latin-1, Latin-2, Latin-3, Latin-4, |
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204 Latin-5, Latin-8 (Celtic), Latin-9 (updated Latin-1, with the Euro |
35163 | 205 sign), Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, |
206 Dutch, Spanish, and Vietnamese. | |
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208 | |
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209 @cindex fonts, for displaying different languages |
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218 @vindex locale-language-names |
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263 @kindex C-h L | |
264 @findex describe-language-environment | |
265 To display information about the effects of a certain language | |
266 environment @var{lang-env}, use the command @kbd{C-h L @var{lang-env} | |
267 @key{RET}} (@code{describe-language-environment}). This tells you which | |
268 languages this language environment is useful for, and lists the | |
269 character sets, coding systems, and input methods that go with it. It | |
270 also shows some sample text to illustrate scripts used in this language | |
271 environment. By default, this command describes the chosen language | |
272 environment. | |
273 | |
274 @vindex set-language-environment-hook | |
275 You can customize any language environment with the normal hook | |
276 @code{set-language-environment-hook}. The command | |
277 @code{set-language-environment} runs that hook after setting up the new | |
278 language environment. The hook functions can test for a specific | |
279 language environment by checking the variable | |
280 @code{current-language-environment}. | |
281 | |
282 @vindex exit-language-environment-hook | |
283 Before it starts to set up the new language environment, | |
284 @code{set-language-environment} first runs the hook | |
285 @code{exit-language-environment-hook}. This hook is useful for undoing | |
286 customizations that were made with @code{set-language-environment-hook}. | |
287 For instance, if you set up a special key binding in a specific language | |
288 environment using @code{set-language-environment-hook}, you should set | |
289 up @code{exit-language-environment-hook} to restore the normal binding | |
290 for that key. | |
291 | |
292 @node Input Methods | |
293 @section Input Methods | |
294 | |
295 @cindex input methods | |
296 An @dfn{input method} is a kind of character conversion designed | |
297 specifically for interactive input. In Emacs, typically each language | |
298 has its own input method; sometimes several languages which use the same | |
299 characters can share one input method. A few languages support several | |
300 input methods. | |
301 | |
302 The simplest kind of input method works by mapping ASCII letters into | |
303 another alphabet. This is how the Greek and Russian input methods work. | |
304 | |
305 A more powerful technique is composition: converting sequences of | |
306 characters into one letter. Many European input methods use composition | |
307 to produce a single non-ASCII letter from a sequence that consists of a | |
308 letter followed by accent characters (or vice versa). For example, some | |
309 methods convert the sequence @kbd{a'} into a single accented letter. | |
310 These input methods have no special commands of their own; all they do | |
311 is compose sequences of printing characters. | |
312 | |
313 The input methods for syllabic scripts typically use mapping followed | |
314 by composition. The input methods for Thai and Korean work this way. | |
315 First, letters are mapped into symbols for particular sounds or tone | |
316 marks; then, sequences of these which make up a whole syllable are | |
317 mapped into one syllable sign. | |
318 | |
319 Chinese and Japanese require more complex methods. In Chinese input | |
320 methods, first you enter the phonetic spelling of a Chinese word (in | |
321 input method @code{chinese-py}, among others), or a sequence of portions | |
322 of the character (input methods @code{chinese-4corner} and | |
323 @code{chinese-sw}, and others). Since one phonetic spelling typically | |
324 corresponds to many different Chinese characters, you must select one of | |
325 the alternatives using special Emacs commands. Keys such as @kbd{C-f}, | |
326 @kbd{C-b}, @kbd{C-n}, @kbd{C-p}, and digits have special definitions in | |
327 this situation, used for selecting among the alternatives. @key{TAB} | |
328 displays a buffer showing all the possibilities. | |
329 | |
330 In Japanese input methods, first you input a whole word using | |
331 phonetic spelling; then, after the word is in the buffer, Emacs converts | |
332 it into one or more characters using a large dictionary. One phonetic | |
333 spelling corresponds to many differently written Japanese words, so you | |
334 must select one of them; use @kbd{C-n} and @kbd{C-p} to cycle through | |
335 the alternatives. | |
336 | |
337 Sometimes it is useful to cut off input method processing so that the | |
338 characters you have just entered will not combine with subsequent | |
339 characters. For example, in input method @code{latin-1-postfix}, the | |
340 sequence @kbd{e '} combines to form an @samp{e} with an accent. What if | |
341 you want to enter them as separate characters? | |
342 | |
343 One way is to type the accent twice; that is a special feature for | |
344 entering the separate letter and accent. For example, @kbd{e ' '} gives | |
345 you the two characters @samp{e'}. Another way is to type another letter | |
346 after the @kbd{e}---something that won't combine with that---and | |
347 immediately delete it. For example, you could type @kbd{e e @key{DEL} | |
348 '} to get separate @samp{e} and @samp{'}. | |
349 | |
350 Another method, more general but not quite as easy to type, is to use | |
351 @kbd{C-\ C-\} between two characters to stop them from combining. This | |
352 is the command @kbd{C-\} (@code{toggle-input-method}) used twice. | |
353 @ifinfo | |
354 @xref{Select Input Method}. | |
355 @end ifinfo | |
356 | |
357 @kbd{C-\ C-\} is especially useful inside an incremental search, | |
358 because it stops waiting for more characters to combine, and starts | |
359 searching for what you have already entered. | |
360 | |
361 @vindex input-method-verbose-flag | |
362 @vindex input-method-highlight-flag | |
363 The variables @code{input-method-highlight-flag} and | |
364 @code{input-method-verbose-flag} control how input methods explain what | |
365 is happening. If @code{input-method-highlight-flag} is non-@code{nil}, | |
366 the partial sequence is highlighted in the buffer. If | |
367 @code{input-method-verbose-flag} is non-@code{nil}, the list of possible | |
368 characters to type next is displayed in the echo area (but not when you | |
369 are in the minibuffer). | |
370 | |
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372 Input methods are implemented in the separate Leim package, which must | |
373 be installed with Emacs. | |
374 | |
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376 @section Selecting an Input Method | |
377 | |
378 @table @kbd | |
379 @item C-\ | |
380 Enable or disable use of the selected input method. | |
381 | |
382 @item C-x @key{RET} C-\ @var{method} @key{RET} | |
383 Select a new input method for the current buffer. | |
384 | |
385 @item C-h I @var{method} @key{RET} | |
386 @itemx C-h C-\ @var{method} @key{RET} | |
387 @findex describe-input-method | |
388 @kindex C-h I | |
389 @kindex C-h C-\ | |
390 Describe the input method @var{method} (@code{describe-input-method}). | |
31204 | 391 By default, it describes the current input method (if any). This |
392 description should give you the full details of how to use any | |
31270 | 393 particular input method. |
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395 @item M-x list-input-methods | |
396 Display a list of all the supported input methods. | |
397 @end table | |
398 | |
399 @findex set-input-method | |
400 @vindex current-input-method | |
401 @kindex C-x RET C-\ | |
402 To choose an input method for the current buffer, use @kbd{C-x | |
403 @key{RET} C-\} (@code{set-input-method}). This command reads the | |
404 input method name with the minibuffer; the name normally starts with the | |
405 language environment that it is meant to be used with. The variable | |
406 @code{current-input-method} records which input method is selected. | |
407 | |
408 @findex toggle-input-method | |
409 @kindex C-\ | |
410 Input methods use various sequences of ASCII characters to stand for | |
411 non-ASCII characters. Sometimes it is useful to turn off the input | |
412 method temporarily. To do this, type @kbd{C-\} | |
413 (@code{toggle-input-method}). To reenable the input method, type | |
414 @kbd{C-\} again. | |
415 | |
416 If you type @kbd{C-\} and you have not yet selected an input method, | |
417 it prompts for you to specify one. This has the same effect as using | |
418 @kbd{C-x @key{RET} C-\} to specify an input method. | |
419 | |
420 @vindex default-input-method | |
421 Selecting a language environment specifies a default input method for | |
422 use in various buffers. When you have a default input method, you can | |
423 select it in the current buffer by typing @kbd{C-\}. The variable | |
424 @code{default-input-method} specifies the default input method | |
425 (@code{nil} means there is none). | |
426 | |
427 @findex quail-set-keyboard-layout | |
428 Some input methods for alphabetic scripts work by (in effect) | |
429 remapping the keyboard to emulate various keyboard layouts commonly used | |
430 for those scripts. How to do this remapping properly depends on your | |
431 actual keyboard layout. To specify which layout your keyboard has, use | |
432 the command @kbd{M-x quail-set-keyboard-layout}. | |
433 | |
434 @findex list-input-methods | |
435 To display a list of all the supported input methods, type @kbd{M-x | |
436 list-input-methods}. The list gives information about each input | |
437 method, including the string that stands for it in the mode line. | |
438 | |
439 @node Multibyte Conversion | |
440 @section Unibyte and Multibyte Non-ASCII characters | |
441 | |
442 When multibyte characters are enabled, character codes 0240 (octal) | |
443 through 0377 (octal) are not really legitimate in the buffer. The valid | |
444 non-ASCII printing characters have codes that start from 0400. | |
445 | |
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448 Latin-@var{n} character sets, and converts it to the Emacs code | |
449 representing that Latin-@var{n} character. You select @emph{which} ISO | |
450 Latin character set to use through your choice of language environment | |
451 @iftex | |
452 (see above). | |
453 @end iftex | |
454 @ifinfo | |
455 (@pxref{Language Environments}). | |
456 @end ifinfo | |
457 If you do not specify a choice, the default is Latin-1. | |
458 | |
459 The same thing happens when you use @kbd{C-q} to enter an octal code | |
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467 @node Coding Systems | |
468 @section Coding Systems | |
469 @cindex coding systems | |
470 | |
471 Users of various languages have established many more-or-less standard | |
472 coding systems for representing them. Emacs does not use these coding | |
473 systems internally; instead, it converts from various coding systems to | |
474 its own system when reading data, and converts the internal coding | |
475 system to other coding systems when writing data. Conversion is | |
476 possible in reading or writing files, in sending or receiving from the | |
477 terminal, and in exchanging data with subprocesses. | |
478 | |
479 Emacs assigns a name to each coding system. Most coding systems are | |
480 used for one language, and the name of the coding system starts with the | |
481 language name. Some coding systems are used for several languages; | |
482 their names usually start with @samp{iso}. There are also special | |
483 coding systems @code{no-conversion}, @code{raw-text} and | |
484 @code{emacs-mule} which do not convert printing characters at all. | |
485 | |
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492 In addition to converting various representations of non-ASCII | |
493 characters, a coding system can perform end-of-line conversion. Emacs | |
494 handles three different conventions for how to separate lines in a file: | |
495 newline, carriage-return linefeed, and just carriage-return. | |
496 | |
497 @table @kbd | |
498 @item C-h C @var{coding} @key{RET} | |
499 Describe coding system @var{coding}. | |
500 | |
501 @item C-h C @key{RET} | |
502 Describe the coding systems currently in use. | |
503 | |
504 @item M-x list-coding-systems | |
505 Display a list of all the supported coding systems. | |
506 @end table | |
507 | |
508 @kindex C-h C | |
509 @findex describe-coding-system | |
510 The command @kbd{C-h C} (@code{describe-coding-system}) displays | |
511 information about particular coding systems. You can specify a coding | |
512 system name as argument; alternatively, with an empty argument, it | |
513 describes the coding systems currently selected for various purposes, | |
514 both in the current buffer and as the defaults, and the priority list | |
515 for recognizing coding systems (@pxref{Recognize Coding}). | |
516 | |
517 @findex list-coding-systems | |
518 To display a list of all the supported coding systems, type @kbd{M-x | |
519 list-coding-systems}. The list gives information about each coding | |
520 system, including the letter that stands for it in the mode line | |
521 (@pxref{Mode Line}). | |
522 | |
523 @cindex end-of-line conversion | |
524 @cindex MS-DOS end-of-line conversion | |
525 @cindex Macintosh end-of-line conversion | |
526 Each of the coding systems that appear in this list---except for | |
527 @code{no-conversion}, which means no conversion of any kind---specifies | |
528 how and whether to convert printing characters, but leaves the choice of | |
529 end-of-line conversion to be decided based on the contents of each file. | |
530 For example, if the file appears to use the sequence carriage-return | |
531 linefeed to separate lines, DOS end-of-line conversion will be used. | |
532 | |
533 Each of the listed coding systems has three variants which specify | |
534 exactly what to do for end-of-line conversion: | |
535 | |
536 @table @code | |
537 @item @dots{}-unix | |
538 Don't do any end-of-line conversion; assume the file uses | |
539 newline to separate lines. (This is the convention normally used | |
540 on Unix and GNU systems.) | |
541 | |
542 @item @dots{}-dos | |
543 Assume the file uses carriage-return linefeed to separate lines, and do | |
544 the appropriate conversion. (This is the convention normally used on | |
545 Microsoft systems.@footnote{It is also specified for MIME `text/*' | |
546 bodies and in other network transport contexts. It is different | |
547 from the SGML reference syntax record-start/record-end format which | |
548 Emacs doesn't support directly.}) | |
549 | |
550 @item @dots{}-mac | |
551 Assume the file uses carriage-return to separate lines, and do the | |
552 appropriate conversion. (This is the convention normally used on the | |
553 Macintosh system.) | |
554 @end table | |
555 | |
556 These variant coding systems are omitted from the | |
557 @code{list-coding-systems} display for brevity, since they are entirely | |
558 predictable. For example, the coding system @code{iso-latin-1} has | |
559 variants @code{iso-latin-1-unix}, @code{iso-latin-1-dos} and | |
560 @code{iso-latin-1-mac}. | |
561 | |
562 The coding system @code{raw-text} is good for a file which is mainly | |
563 ASCII text, but may contain byte values above 127 which are not meant to | |
564 encode non-ASCII characters. With @code{raw-text}, Emacs copies those | |
565 byte values unchanged, and sets @code{enable-multibyte-characters} to | |
566 @code{nil} in the current buffer so that they will be interpreted | |
567 properly. @code{raw-text} handles end-of-line conversion in the usual | |
568 way, based on the data encountered, and has the usual three variants to | |
569 specify the kind of end-of-line conversion to use. | |
570 | |
571 In contrast, the coding system @code{no-conversion} specifies no | |
572 character code conversion at all---none for non-ASCII byte values and | |
573 none for end of line. This is useful for reading or writing binary | |
574 files, tar files, and other files that must be examined verbatim. It, | |
575 too, sets @code{enable-multibyte-characters} to @code{nil}. | |
576 | |
577 The easiest way to edit a file with no conversion of any kind is with | |
578 the @kbd{M-x find-file-literally} command. This uses | |
579 @code{no-conversion}, and also suppresses other Emacs features that | |
580 might convert the file contents before you see them. @xref{Visiting}. | |
581 | |
582 The coding system @code{emacs-mule} means that the file contains | |
583 non-ASCII characters stored with the internal Emacs encoding. It | |
584 handles end-of-line conversion based on the data encountered, and has | |
585 the usual three variants to specify the kind of end-of-line conversion. | |
586 | |
587 @node Recognize Coding | |
588 @section Recognizing Coding Systems | |
589 | |
590 Most of the time, Emacs can recognize which coding system to use for | |
591 any given file---once you have specified your preferences. | |
592 | |
593 Some coding systems can be recognized or distinguished by which byte | |
594 sequences appear in the data. However, there are coding systems that | |
595 cannot be distinguished, not even potentially. For example, there is no | |
596 way to distinguish between Latin-1 and Latin-2; they use the same byte | |
597 values with different meanings. | |
598 | |
599 Emacs handles this situation by means of a priority list of coding | |
600 systems. Whenever Emacs reads a file, if you do not specify the coding | |
601 system to use, Emacs checks the data against each coding system, | |
602 starting with the first in priority and working down the list, until it | |
603 finds a coding system that fits the data. Then it converts the file | |
604 contents assuming that they are represented in this coding system. | |
605 | |
606 The priority list of coding systems depends on the selected language | |
607 environment (@pxref{Language Environments}). For example, if you use | |
608 French, you probably want Emacs to prefer Latin-1 to Latin-2; if you use | |
609 Czech, you probably want Latin-2 to be preferred. This is one of the | |
610 reasons to specify a language environment. | |
611 | |
612 @findex prefer-coding-system | |
613 However, you can alter the priority list in detail with the command | |
614 @kbd{M-x prefer-coding-system}. This command reads the name of a coding | |
615 system from the minibuffer, and adds it to the front of the priority | |
616 list, so that it is preferred to all others. If you use this command | |
617 several times, each use adds one element to the front of the priority | |
618 list. | |
619 | |
620 If you use a coding system that specifies the end-of-line conversion | |
621 type, such as @code{iso-8859-1-dos}, what that means is that Emacs | |
622 should attempt to recognize @code{iso-8859-1} with priority, and should | |
623 use DOS end-of-line conversion in case it recognizes @code{iso-8859-1}. | |
624 | |
625 @vindex file-coding-system-alist | |
626 Sometimes a file name indicates which coding system to use for the | |
627 file. The variable @code{file-coding-system-alist} specifies this | |
628 correspondence. There is a special function | |
629 @code{modify-coding-system-alist} for adding elements to this list. For | |
630 example, to read and write all @samp{.txt} files using the coding system | |
631 @code{china-iso-8bit}, you can execute this Lisp expression: | |
632 | |
633 @smallexample | |
634 (modify-coding-system-alist 'file "\\.txt\\'" 'china-iso-8bit) | |
635 @end smallexample | |
636 | |
637 @noindent | |
638 The first argument should be @code{file}, the second argument should be | |
639 a regular expression that determines which files this applies to, and | |
640 the third argument says which coding system to use for these files. | |
641 | |
642 @vindex inhibit-eol-conversion | |
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645 the contents of the file: if it sees only carriage-returns, or only | |
646 carriage-return linefeed sequences, then it chooses the end-of-line | |
647 conversion accordingly. You can inhibit the automatic use of | |
648 end-of-line conversion by setting the variable @code{inhibit-eol-conversion} | |
649 to non-@code{nil}. | |
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675 You can specify the coding system for a particular file using the | |
676 @samp{-*-@dots{}-*-} construct at the beginning of a file, or a local | |
677 variables list at the end (@pxref{File Variables}). You do this by | |
678 defining a value for the ``variable'' named @code{coding}. Emacs does | |
679 not really have a variable @code{coding}; instead of setting a variable, | |
680 it uses the specified coding system for the file. For example, | |
681 @samp{-*-mode: C; coding: latin-1;-*-} specifies use of the Latin-1 | |
682 coding system, as well as C mode. If you specify the coding explicitly | |
683 in the file, that overrides @code{file-coding-system-alist}. | |
684 | |
685 @vindex auto-coding-alist | |
686 The variable @code{auto-coding-alist} is the strongest way to specify | |
687 the coding system for certain patterns of file names; this variable even | |
688 overrides @samp{-*-coding:-*-} tags in the file itself. Emacs uses this | |
689 feature for tar and archive files, to prevent Emacs from being confused | |
690 by a @samp{-*-coding:-*-} tag in a member of the archive and thinking it | |
691 applies to the archive file as a whole. | |
692 | |
693 @vindex buffer-file-coding-system | |
694 Once Emacs has chosen a coding system for a buffer, it stores that | |
695 coding system in @code{buffer-file-coding-system} and uses that coding | |
696 system, by default, for operations that write from this buffer into a | |
697 file. This includes the commands @code{save-buffer} and | |
698 @code{write-region}. If you want to write files from this buffer using | |
699 a different coding system, you can specify a different coding system for | |
700 the buffer using @code{set-buffer-file-coding-system} (@pxref{Specify | |
701 Coding}). | |
702 | |
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732 When you send a message with Mail mode (@pxref{Sending Mail}), Emacs has | |
733 four different ways to determine the coding system to use for encoding | |
734 the message text. It tries the buffer's own value of | |
735 @code{buffer-file-coding-system}, if that is non-@code{nil}. Otherwise, | |
736 it uses the value of @code{sendmail-coding-system}, if that is | |
737 non-@code{nil}. The third way is to use the default coding system for | |
738 new files, which is controlled by your choice of language environment, | |
739 if that is non-@code{nil}. If all of these three values are @code{nil}, | |
740 Emacs encodes outgoing mail using the Latin-1 coding system. | |
741 | |
742 @vindex rmail-decode-mime-charset | |
743 When you get new mail in Rmail, each message is translated | |
744 automatically from the coding system it is written in---as if it were a | |
745 separate file. This uses the priority list of coding systems that you | |
746 have specified. If a MIME message specifies a character set, Rmail | |
747 obeys that specification, unless @code{rmail-decode-mime-charset} is | |
748 @code{nil}. | |
749 | |
750 @vindex rmail-file-coding-system | |
751 For reading and saving Rmail files themselves, Emacs uses the coding | |
752 system specified by the variable @code{rmail-file-coding-system}. The | |
753 default value is @code{nil}, which means that Rmail files are not | |
754 translated (they are read and written in the Emacs internal character | |
755 code). | |
756 | |
757 @node Specify Coding | |
758 @section Specifying a Coding System | |
759 | |
760 In cases where Emacs does not automatically choose the right coding | |
761 system, you can use these commands to specify one: | |
762 | |
763 @table @kbd | |
764 @item C-x @key{RET} f @var{coding} @key{RET} | |
765 Use coding system @var{coding} for the visited file | |
766 in the current buffer. | |
767 | |
768 @item C-x @key{RET} c @var{coding} @key{RET} | |
769 Specify coding system @var{coding} for the immediately following | |
770 command. | |
771 | |
772 @item C-x @key{RET} k @var{coding} @key{RET} | |
773 Use coding system @var{coding} for keyboard input. | |
774 | |
775 @item C-x @key{RET} t @var{coding} @key{RET} | |
776 Use coding system @var{coding} for terminal output. | |
777 | |
778 @item C-x @key{RET} p @var{input-coding} @key{RET} @var{output-coding} @key{RET} | |
779 Use coding systems @var{input-coding} and @var{output-coding} for | |
780 subprocess input and output in the current buffer. | |
781 | |
782 @item C-x @key{RET} x @var{coding} @key{RET} | |
783 Use coding system @var{coding} for transferring selections to and from | |
784 other programs through the window system. | |
785 | |
786 @item C-x @key{RET} X @var{coding} @key{RET} | |
787 Use coding system @var{coding} for transferring @emph{one} | |
788 selection---the next one---to or from the window system. | |
789 @end table | |
790 | |
791 @kindex C-x RET f | |
792 @findex set-buffer-file-coding-system | |
793 The command @kbd{C-x @key{RET} f} (@code{set-buffer-file-coding-system}) | |
794 specifies the file coding system for the current buffer---in other | |
795 words, which coding system to use when saving or rereading the visited | |
796 file. You specify which coding system using the minibuffer. Since this | |
797 command applies to a file you have already visited, it affects only the | |
798 way the file is saved. | |
799 | |
800 @kindex C-x RET c | |
801 @findex universal-coding-system-argument | |
802 Another way to specify the coding system for a file is when you visit | |
803 the file. First use the command @kbd{C-x @key{RET} c} | |
804 (@code{universal-coding-system-argument}); this command uses the | |
805 minibuffer to read a coding system name. After you exit the minibuffer, | |
806 the specified coding system is used for @emph{the immediately following | |
807 command}. | |
808 | |
809 So if the immediately following command is @kbd{C-x C-f}, for example, | |
810 it reads the file using that coding system (and records the coding | |
811 system for when the file is saved). Or if the immediately following | |
812 command is @kbd{C-x C-w}, it writes the file using that coding system. | |
813 Other file commands affected by a specified coding system include | |
814 @kbd{C-x C-i} and @kbd{C-x C-v}, as well as the other-window variants of | |
815 @kbd{C-x C-f}. | |
816 | |
817 @kbd{C-x @key{RET} c} also affects commands that start subprocesses, | |
818 including @kbd{M-x shell} (@pxref{Shell}). | |
819 | |
820 However, if the immediately following command does not use the coding | |
821 system, then @kbd{C-x @key{RET} c} ultimately has no effect. | |
822 | |
823 An easy way to visit a file with no conversion is with the @kbd{M-x | |
824 find-file-literally} command. @xref{Visiting}. | |
825 | |
826 @vindex default-buffer-file-coding-system | |
827 The variable @code{default-buffer-file-coding-system} specifies the | |
828 choice of coding system to use when you create a new file. It applies | |
829 when you find a new file, and when you create a buffer and then save it | |
830 in a file. Selecting a language environment typically sets this | |
831 variable to a good choice of default coding system for that language | |
832 environment. | |
833 | |
834 @kindex C-x RET t | |
835 @findex set-terminal-coding-system | |
836 The command @kbd{C-x @key{RET} t} (@code{set-terminal-coding-system}) | |
837 specifies the coding system for terminal output. If you specify a | |
838 character code for terminal output, all characters output to the | |
839 terminal are translated into that coding system. | |
840 | |
841 This feature is useful for certain character-only terminals built to | |
842 support specific languages or character sets---for example, European | |
843 terminals that support one of the ISO Latin character sets. You need to | |
844 specify the terminal coding system when using multibyte text, so that | |
845 Emacs knows which characters the terminal can actually handle. | |
846 | |
847 By default, output to the terminal is not translated at all, unless | |
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851 @kindex C-x RET k | |
852 @findex set-keyboard-coding-system | |
34691 | 853 @vindex keyboard-coding-system |
25829 | 854 The command @kbd{C-x @key{RET} k} (@code{set-keyboard-coding-system}) |
34691 | 855 or the Custom option @code{keyboard-coding-system} |
25829 | 856 specifies the coding system for keyboard input. Character-code |
857 translation of keyboard input is useful for terminals with keys that | |
858 send non-ASCII graphic characters---for example, some terminals designed | |
859 for ISO Latin-1 or subsets of it. | |
860 | |
861 By default, keyboard input is not translated at all. | |
862 | |
863 There is a similarity between using a coding system translation for | |
864 keyboard input, and using an input method: both define sequences of | |
865 keyboard input that translate into single characters. However, input | |
866 methods are designed to be convenient for interactive use by humans, and | |
867 the sequences that are translated are typically sequences of ASCII | |
868 printing characters. Coding systems typically translate sequences of | |
869 non-graphic characters. | |
870 | |
871 @kindex C-x RET x | |
872 @kindex C-x RET X | |
873 @findex set-selection-coding-system | |
874 @findex set-next-selection-coding-system | |
875 The command @kbd{C-x @key{RET} x} (@code{set-selection-coding-system}) | |
876 specifies the coding system for sending selected text to the window | |
877 system, and for receiving the text of selections made in other | |
878 applications. This command applies to all subsequent selections, until | |
879 you override it by using the command again. The command @kbd{C-x | |
880 @key{RET} X} (@code{set-next-selection-coding-system}) specifies the | |
881 coding system for the next selection made in Emacs or read by Emacs. | |
882 | |
883 @kindex C-x RET p | |
884 @findex set-buffer-process-coding-system | |
885 The command @kbd{C-x @key{RET} p} (@code{set-buffer-process-coding-system}) | |
886 specifies the coding system for input and output to a subprocess. This | |
887 command applies to the current buffer; normally, each subprocess has its | |
888 own buffer, and thus you can use this command to specify translation to | |
889 and from a particular subprocess by giving the command in the | |
890 corresponding buffer. | |
891 | |
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895 @vindex file-name-coding-system | |
896 The variable @code{file-name-coding-system} specifies a coding system | |
897 to use for encoding file names. If you set the variable to a coding | |
898 system name (as a Lisp symbol or a string), Emacs encodes file names | |
899 using that coding system for all file operations. This makes it | |
900 possible to use non-ASCII characters in file names---or, at least, those | |
901 non-ASCII characters which the specified coding system can encode. | |
902 | |
903 If @code{file-name-coding-system} is @code{nil}, Emacs uses a default | |
904 coding system determined by the selected language environment. In the | |
905 default language environment, any non-ASCII characters in file names are | |
906 not encoded specially; they appear in the file system using the internal | |
907 Emacs representation. | |
908 | |
909 @strong{Warning:} if you change @code{file-name-coding-system} (or the | |
910 language environment) in the middle of an Emacs session, problems can | |
911 result if you have already visited files whose names were encoded using | |
912 the earlier coding system and cannot be encoded (or are encoded | |
913 differently) under the new coding system. If you try to save one of | |
914 these buffers under the visited file name, saving may use the wrong file | |
915 name, or it may get an error. If such a problem happens, use @kbd{C-x | |
916 C-w} to specify a new file name for that buffer. | |
917 | |
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924 the list @env{LC_ALL}, @env{LC_CTYPE}, @env{LANG} whose value is |
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25829 | 927 @node Fontsets |
928 @section Fontsets | |
929 @cindex fontsets | |
930 | |
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25829 | 936 |
937 Each fontset has a name, like a font. The available X fonts are | |
938 defined by the X server; fontsets, however, are defined within Emacs | |
939 itself. Once you have defined a fontset, you can use it within Emacs by | |
940 specifying its name, anywhere that you could use a single font. Of | |
941 course, Emacs fontsets can use only the fonts that the X server | |
942 supports; if certain characters appear on the screen as hollow boxes, | |
943 this means that the fontset in use for them has no font for those | |
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945 additional font support.} |
25829 | 946 |
947 Emacs creates two fontsets automatically: the @dfn{standard fontset} | |
948 and the @dfn{startup fontset}. The standard fontset is most likely to | |
949 have fonts for a wide variety of non-ASCII characters; however, this is | |
950 not the default for Emacs to use. (By default, Emacs tries to find a | |
951 font which has bold and italic variants.) You can specify use of the | |
952 standard fontset with the @samp{-fn} option, or with the @samp{Font} X | |
953 resource (@pxref{Font X}). For example, | |
954 | |
955 @example | |
956 emacs -fn fontset-standard | |
957 @end example | |
958 | |
959 A fontset does not necessarily specify a font for every character | |
960 code. If a fontset specifies no font for a certain character, or if it | |
961 specifies a font that does not exist on your system, then it cannot | |
962 display that character properly. It will display that character as an | |
963 empty box instead. | |
964 | |
965 @vindex highlight-wrong-size-font | |
966 The fontset height and width are determined by the ASCII characters | |
967 (that is, by the font used for ASCII characters in that fontset). If | |
968 another font in the fontset has a different height, or a different | |
969 width, then characters assigned to that font are clipped to the | |
970 fontset's size. If @code{highlight-wrong-size-font} is non-@code{nil}, | |
971 a box is displayed around these wrong-size characters as well. | |
972 | |
973 @node Defining Fontsets | |
974 @section Defining fontsets | |
975 | |
976 @vindex standard-fontset-spec | |
977 @cindex standard fontset | |
978 Emacs creates a standard fontset automatically according to the value | |
979 of @code{standard-fontset-spec}. This fontset's name is | |
980 | |
981 @example | |
982 -*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-standard | |
983 @end example | |
984 | |
985 @noindent | |
986 or just @samp{fontset-standard} for short. | |
987 | |
988 Bold, italic, and bold-italic variants of the standard fontset are | |
989 created automatically. Their names have @samp{bold} instead of | |
990 @samp{medium}, or @samp{i} instead of @samp{r}, or both. | |
991 | |
992 @cindex startup fontset | |
993 If you specify a default ASCII font with the @samp{Font} resource or | |
994 the @samp{-fn} argument, Emacs generates a fontset from it | |
995 automatically. This is the @dfn{startup fontset} and its name is | |
996 @code{fontset-startup}. It does this by replacing the @var{foundry}, | |
997 @var{family}, @var{add_style}, and @var{average_width} fields of the | |
998 font name with @samp{*}, replacing @var{charset_registry} field with | |
999 @samp{fontset}, and replacing @var{charset_encoding} field with | |
1000 @samp{startup}, then using the resulting string to specify a fontset. | |
1001 | |
1002 For instance, if you start Emacs this way, | |
1003 | |
1004 @example | |
1005 emacs -fn "*courier-medium-r-normal--14-140-*-iso8859-1" | |
1006 @end example | |
1007 | |
1008 @noindent | |
1009 Emacs generates the following fontset and uses it for the initial X | |
1010 window frame: | |
1011 | |
1012 @example | |
1013 -*-*-medium-r-normal-*-14-140-*-*-*-*-fontset-startup | |
1014 @end example | |
1015 | |
1016 With the X resource @samp{Emacs.Font}, you can specify a fontset name | |
1017 just like an actual font name. But be careful not to specify a fontset | |
1018 name in a wildcard resource like @samp{Emacs*Font}---that wildcard | |
1019 specification applies to various other purposes, such as menus, and | |
1020 menus cannot handle fontsets. | |
1021 | |
1022 You can specify additional fontsets using X resources named | |
1023 @samp{Fontset-@var{n}}, where @var{n} is an integer starting from 0. | |
1024 The resource value should have this form: | |
1025 | |
1026 @smallexample | |
1027 @var{fontpattern}, @r{[}@var{charsetname}:@var{fontname}@r{]@dots{}} | |
1028 @end smallexample | |
1029 | |
1030 @noindent | |
1031 @var{fontpattern} should have the form of a standard X font name, except | |
1032 for the last two fields. They should have the form | |
1033 @samp{fontset-@var{alias}}. | |
1034 | |
1035 The fontset has two names, one long and one short. The long name is | |
1036 @var{fontpattern}. The short name is @samp{fontset-@var{alias}}. You | |
1037 can refer to the fontset by either name. | |
1038 | |
1039 The construct @samp{@var{charset}:@var{font}} specifies which font to | |
1040 use (in this fontset) for one particular character set. Here, | |
1041 @var{charset} is the name of a character set, and @var{font} is the | |
1042 font to use for that character set. You can use this construct any | |
1043 number of times in defining one fontset. | |
1044 | |
1045 For the other character sets, Emacs chooses a font based on | |
1046 @var{fontpattern}. It replaces @samp{fontset-@var{alias}} with values | |
1047 that describe the character set. For the ASCII character font, | |
1048 @samp{fontset-@var{alias}} is replaced with @samp{ISO8859-1}. | |
1049 | |
1050 In addition, when several consecutive fields are wildcards, Emacs | |
1051 collapses them into a single wildcard. This is to prevent use of | |
1052 auto-scaled fonts. Fonts made by scaling larger fonts are not usable | |
1053 for editing, and scaling a smaller font is not useful because it is | |
1054 better to use the smaller font in its own size, which Emacs does. | |
1055 | |
1056 Thus if @var{fontpattern} is this, | |
1057 | |
1058 @example | |
1059 -*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-24 | |
1060 @end example | |
1061 | |
1062 @noindent | |
1063 the font specification for ASCII characters would be this: | |
1064 | |
1065 @example | |
1066 -*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-24-*-ISO8859-1 | |
1067 @end example | |
1068 | |
1069 @noindent | |
1070 and the font specification for Chinese GB2312 characters would be this: | |
1071 | |
1072 @example | |
1073 -*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-24-*-gb2312*-* | |
1074 @end example | |
1075 | |
1076 You may not have any Chinese font matching the above font | |
1077 specification. Most X distributions include only Chinese fonts that | |
1078 have @samp{song ti} or @samp{fangsong ti} in @var{family} field. In | |
1079 such a case, @samp{Fontset-@var{n}} can be specified as below: | |
1080 | |
1081 @smallexample | |
1082 Emacs.Fontset-0: -*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-24,\ | |
1083 chinese-gb2312:-*-*-medium-r-normal-*-24-*-gb2312*-* | |
1084 @end smallexample | |
1085 | |
1086 @noindent | |
1087 Then, the font specifications for all but Chinese GB2312 characters have | |
1088 @samp{fixed} in the @var{family} field, and the font specification for | |
1089 Chinese GB2312 characters has a wild card @samp{*} in the @var{family} | |
1090 field. | |
1091 | |
1092 @findex create-fontset-from-fontset-spec | |
1093 The function that processes the fontset resource value to create the | |
1094 fontset is called @code{create-fontset-from-fontset-spec}. You can also | |
1095 call this function explicitly to create a fontset. | |
1096 | |
1097 @xref{Font X}, for more information about font naming in X. | |
1098 | |
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1112 @samp{"o} for o-umlaut. Load the library @file{iso-ascii} to do this. |
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1115 other European character sets using a mixture of equivalent Latin-1 |
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1116 characters and @sc{ascii} mnemonics. Use the Custom option |
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1117 @code{latin1-display} to enable this. The mnemonic @sc{ascii} sequences |
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1123 @cindex European character sets | |
1124 @cindex accented characters | |
1125 @cindex ISO Latin character sets | |
1126 @cindex Unibyte operation | |
1127 @vindex enable-multibyte-characters | |
1128 The ISO 8859 Latin-@var{n} character sets define character codes in | |
1129 the range 160 to 255 to handle the accented letters and punctuation | |
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25829 | 1132 characters, Emacs can still handle @emph{one} of these character codes |
1133 at a time. To specify @emph{which} of these codes to use, invoke | |
1134 @kbd{M-x set-language-environment} and specify a suitable language | |
1135 environment such as @samp{Latin-@var{n}}. | |
1136 | |
1137 For more information about unibyte operation, see @ref{Enabling | |
1138 Multibyte}. Note particularly that you probably want to ensure that | |
1139 your initialization files are read as unibyte if they contain non-ASCII | |
1140 characters. | |
1141 | |
1142 @vindex unibyte-display-via-language-environment | |
1143 Emacs can also display those characters, provided the terminal or font | |
1144 in use supports them. This works automatically. Alternatively, if you | |
1145 are using a window system, Emacs can also display single-byte characters | |
1146 through fontsets, in effect by displaying the equivalent multibyte | |
1147 characters according to the current language environment. To request | |
1148 this, set the variable @code{unibyte-display-via-language-environment} | |
1149 to a non-@code{nil} value. | |
1150 | |
1151 @cindex @code{iso-ascii} library | |
1152 If your terminal does not support display of the Latin-1 character | |
1153 set, Emacs can display these characters as ASCII sequences which at | |
1154 least give you a clear idea of what the characters are. To do this, | |
1155 load the library @code{iso-ascii}. Similar libraries for other | |
1156 Latin-@var{n} character sets could be implemented, but we don't have | |
1157 them yet. | |
1158 | |
1159 @findex standard-display-8bit | |
1160 @cindex 8-bit display | |
1161 Normally non-ISO-8859 characters (between characters 128 and 159 | |
1162 inclusive) are displayed as octal escapes. You can change this for | |
1163 non-standard `extended' versions of ISO-8859 character sets by using the | |
1164 function @code{standard-display-8bit} in the @code{disp-table} library. | |
1165 | |
28552 | 1166 There are several ways you can input single-byte non-ASCII |
25829 | 1167 characters: |
1168 | |
1169 @itemize @bullet | |
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25829 | 1171 @item |
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1173 @vindex keyboard-coding-system | |
25829 | 1174 If your keyboard can generate character codes 128 and up, representing |
34691 | 1175 non-ASCII characters, use the command @code{M-x |
1176 set-keyboard-coding-system} or the Custom option | |
1177 @code{keyboard-coding-system} to specify this in the same way as for | |
1178 multibyte usage (@pxref{Specify Coding}). | |
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1182 terminal, you will probably need to use @kbd{ESC} to type Meta |
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1186 using @kbd{Compose} or @kbd{AltGr} keys.} @xref{User Input}. |
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Don't conflate single-byte with European.
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25829 | 1188 @item |
1189 You can use an input method for the selected language environment. | |
1190 @xref{Input Methods}. When you use an input method in a unibyte buffer, | |
1191 the non-ASCII character you specify with it is converted to unibyte. | |
1192 | |
1193 @kindex C-x 8 | |
1194 @cindex @code{iso-transl} library | |
31077 | 1195 @cindex compose character |
1196 @cindex dead character | |
25829 | 1197 @item |
1198 For Latin-1 only, you can use the | |
1199 key @kbd{C-x 8} as a ``compose character'' prefix for entry of | |
1200 non-ASCII Latin-1 printing characters. @kbd{C-x 8} is good for | |
1201 insertion (in the minibuffer as well as other buffers), for searching, | |
1202 and in any other context where a key sequence is allowed. | |
1203 | |
1204 @kbd{C-x 8} works by loading the @code{iso-transl} library. Once that | |
1205 library is loaded, the @key{ALT} modifier key, if you have one, serves | |
1206 the same purpose as @kbd{C-x 8}; use @key{ALT} together with an accent | |
1207 character to modify the following letter. In addition, if you have keys | |
1208 for the Latin-1 ``dead accent characters'', they too are defined to | |
1209 compose with the following character, once @code{iso-transl} is loaded. | |
28552 | 1210 Use @kbd{C-x 8 C-h} to list the available translations as mnemonic |
1211 command names. | |
1212 | |
31077 | 1213 @item |
28552 | 1214 @cindex @code{iso-acc} library |
31077 | 1215 @cindex ISO Accents mode |
1216 @findex iso-accents-mode | |
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1217 @cindex Latin-1, Latin-2 and Latin-3 input mode |
31204 | 1218 For Latin-1, Latin-2 and Latin-3, @kbd{M-x iso-accents-mode} installs a |
1219 minor mode which provides a facility like the @code{latin-1-prefix} | |
1220 input method but independent of the Leim package. This mode is | |
31205 | 1221 buffer-local. It can be customized for various languages with @kbd{M-x |
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1222 iso-accents-customize}. |
25829 | 1223 @end itemize |