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changeset 63680:834cdf15f68b
(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.
author | Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org> |
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date | Thu, 23 Jun 2005 05:26:58 +0000 |
parents | deead44b63f9 |
children | 4dd0ef7bee9f |
files | man/mule.texi |
diffstat | 1 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/man/mule.texi Thu Jun 23 01:47:32 2005 +0000 +++ b/man/mule.texi Thu Jun 23 05:26:58 2005 +0000 @@ -35,11 +35,12 @@ @cindex Dutch @cindex Spanish Emacs supports a wide variety of international character sets, -including European variants of the Latin alphabet, as well as Chinese, -Cyrillic, Devanagari (Hindi and Marathi), Ethiopic, Greek, Hebrew, IPA, -Japanese, Korean, Lao, Thai, Tibetan, and Vietnamese scripts. These features -have been merged from the modified version of Emacs known as MULE (for -``MULti-lingual Enhancement to GNU Emacs'') +including European and Vietnamese variants of the Latin alphabet, as +well as Cyrillic, Devanagari (for Hindi and Marathi), Ethiopic, Greek, +Han (for Chinese and Japanese), Hangul (for Korean), Hebrew, IPA, +Kannada, Lao, Malayalam, Tamil, Thai, Tibetan, and Vietnamese scripts. +These features have been merged from the modified version of Emacs +known as MULE (for ``MULti-lingual Enhancement to GNU Emacs'') Emacs also supports various encodings of these characters used by other internationalized software, such as word processors and mailers. @@ -69,8 +70,7 @@ You can insert non-@acronym{ASCII} characters or search for them. To do that, you can specify an input method (@pxref{Select Input Method}) suitable for your language, or use the default input method set up when you set -your language environment. (Emacs input methods are part of the Leim -package, which must be installed for you to be able to use them.) If +your language environment. If your keyboard can produce non-@acronym{ASCII} characters, you can select an appropriate keyboard coding system (@pxref{Specify Coding}), and Emacs will accept those characters. Latin-1 characters can also be input by @@ -240,13 +240,19 @@ @cindex Euro sign @cindex UTF-8 @quotation -Chinese-BIG5, Chinese-CNS, Chinese-GB, Cyrillic-ALT, Cyrillic-ISO, -Cyrillic-KOI8, Czech, Devanagari, Dutch, English, Ethiopic, German, -Greek, Hebrew, IPA, Japanese, Korean, Lao, Latin-1, Latin-2, Latin-3, -Latin-4, Latin-5, Latin-8 (Celtic), Latin-9 (updated Latin-1, with the -Euro sign), Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Thai, Tibetan, -Turkish, UTF-8 (for a setup which prefers Unicode characters and files -encoded in UTF-8), and Vietnamese. +Belarusian, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Chinese-BIG5, +Chinese-CNS, Chinese-EUC-TW, Chinese-GB, Croatian, Cyrillic-ALT, +Cyrillic-ISO, Cyrillic-KOI8, Czech, Devanagari, Dutch, English, +Ethiopic, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, IPA, Italian, +Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Lao, Latin-1, Latin-2, Latin-3, +Latin-4, Latin-5, Latin-6, Latin-7, Latin-8 (Celtic), +Latin-9 (updated Latin-1 with the Euro sign), Latvian, +Lithuanian, Malayalam, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, +Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, Thai, Tibetan, +Turkish, UTF-8 (for a setup which prefers Unicode characters and +files encoded in UTF-8), Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Welsh, and +Windows-1255 (for a setup which prefers Cyrillic characters and +files encoded in Windows-1255). @end quotation @cindex fonts for various scripts @@ -254,7 +260,7 @@ To display the script(s) used by your language environment on a graphical display, you need to have a suitable font. If some of the characters appear as empty boxes, you should install the GNU Intlfonts -package, which includes fonts for all supported scripts.@footnote{If +package, which includes fonts for most supported scripts.@footnote{If you run Emacs on X, you need to inform the X server about the location of the newly installed fonts with the following commands: @@ -527,7 +533,9 @@ @findex quail-show-key You can use the command @kbd{M-x quail-show-key} to show what key (or key sequence) to type in order to input the character following -point, using the selected keyboard layout. +point, using the selected keyboard layout. The +command @kdb{C-u C-x =} also shows that information in addition to the +other information about the character. @findex list-input-methods To display a list of all the supported input methods, type @kbd{M-x @@ -736,7 +744,7 @@ @code{china-iso-8bit}, you can execute this Lisp expression: @smallexample -(modify-coding-system-alist 'file "\\.txt\\'" 'china-iso-8bit) +(modify-coding-system-alist 'file "\\.txt\\'" 'chinese-iso-8bit) @end smallexample @noindent