EmacsWiki: Category Internationalization (original) (raw)

Click on the title to search for all pages in the internationalization ([anchor first defined here: i18n]) category. This includes Latin-1 and CP-1250 questions, Japanese and Chinese fonts and input methods, using BDF fonts on NT Emacs, etc.

Getting started:

• InternationalSetup – basic setup you need
  • LanguageEnvironment – Emacs doesn’t show or accept äöü or similar
  • InternationalFonts – where to get the fonts to show your characters
  • FontSetsForNTEmacs – how to install the fonts for Emacs on Windows
  • PrintingBdfFonts – when you use the intlfonts package with the BDF fonts, here is how to print them using PsPrint
• AproposUnicode – help with Unicode characters
• DisplayingNonAsciiCharacters – debugging your setup when the display fails
• FindingNonAsciiCharacters
• BufferCharset – list charsets used in a buffer
• InputMethods – the code you need to be able to type weird characters which are not part of your keyboard
  • ChangingCursorDynamically – Automatically change the TextCursor color when you use an input method
  • Lisp:fliptext.el – unicode upside-down characters
• AltGrKey – Emacs keys seems hidden because AltGr + Control + key is (almost) just AltGr + key – Solution: use AltGr + RControl (in that order!)
• ScimBridge – Write in various languages with SCIM
• IBusMode – Write in various languages with IBus
• WritingChinese – details for Chinese readers and writers
  • ScimBridge Chinese use SCIM in Emacs.
  • WritingChineseWithWuBi
  • EimForChinese
• WritingGothic – Details for Gothic users
• WritingIsoLatinOne – Writing with the ‘C-x 8’ prefix.
• WritingJapanese – details for Japanese readers and writers
  • InsertSpaceBetweenZenkakuAndHankaku – Insert a space between zenkaku and hankaku (in Japanese)
  • Migemo – Isearch Japanese characters without convertion (in Japanese)
• WritingKorean – details for Korean readers and writers
• WritingRussianWithDvorak – details for Russian users
• WritingRussianWithColemak – details for Russian users
• GnuEmacsRussification – configuration for Russian users
• WritingSanskrit – details for Sanskrit authors
• WritingTengwar – Tolkien’s languages
• WritingYiddish – Details for Yiddish users
• SupportHindi – How to read and write in Hindi language using Emacs
• SupportTamil – How to read and write in Tamil language using Emacs
• TypographicalPunctuationMarks – en-dashes, em-dashes and typographical quotation marks (aka “smart quotes”)
• TextTranslator – text translation package
• GoTranslate – Google Translate interface
• GoogleTranslate – Google Translate interface
• TransEJ – English-Japanese translator using multiple Web translation services
• Lisp:eijiro.el – Search Eijiro, Japanese ⇔ English dictionary, with Anything
• Internationalization WorkFlow
• dic-lookup-w3m – Lookup online dictionaries or translate text using emacs-w3m.

Coding System stuff:

• CodingSystem – what coding systems are
• GutenbergCoding – coding system for Project Gutenberg texts
• HtmlCoding – coding system for HTML files (Emacs 21)
• LatexEnc – coding system from LaTeX inputenc
• MuleUCS – extending utf-8 and other unicode coding systems
• PerlPodCoding – coding system from perl POD =encoding declaration
• SelectingTheRightCodingSystem through auto-detection, a keyboard command, a text mark in the file, or a project-specific configuration
• Unicad – universal charset auto-detection, like mozilla can do
• XmlCoding – coding system for XML files (Emacs 21)

Special Packages:

• ClassicalGreek
• SimpleJapaneseTypesetter
• ChineseInputMethodImprove
• Lisp:hanconvert.el – Convert between simple chinese character and tradition chinese character
• Lisp:undecodify.el (UnDecodify) – Convert UTF-8 encoded as CP-1252 to UTF-8, a common error made by Wordpress also available from GitHub

Background Information:

• FontSets
• LatinOneAndMicrosoft
• UnicodeEncoding
• ReCode
• ChangingEncodings

For some basic information on MULE, read the paper by Handa et al.