C-9: How can I input ISO 8859 characters?

Mule supports all the character sets from Latin-1 (ISO 8859-1) to Latin-5 (ISO 8859-9). The quail system is used to input these characters from an ordinary ASCII keyboard.

Following five files are provided to input ISO 8859 characters:

• quail/latin.el : languages written in Latin alphabets (for slow typists) This file is for naive users. Most of the accented letters are input by composing two characters. For example, you will get an ,Ai(B (e with acute accent) by typing an e followed by a ' (single quote). LANGUAGE PACKAGE NAME -------------------------------- Danish danish Esperanto esperanto Finnish finnish French french German german Icelandic icelandic Italian italian Norwegian norwegian Spanish spanish Swedish swedish Turkish turkish British british ISO 8859-1 latin-1 ISO 8859-2 latin-2 ISO 8859-3 latin-3 ISO 8859-4 latin-4 ISO 8859-9 latin-5
• quail/ltn.el : languages written in Latin alphabets (for quick typists) This file was made for those who find quail/latin.el is too awkward. The principle of this file is "the less strokes, the better". Most of the special letters proper to each language are allocated to somewhere so that you can type them with a single stroke. You can type very quickly once you learn the layout by heart. LANGUAGE PACKAGE NAME ----------------------------------------------------------- Danish dnsh Finnish fnnsh French frnch, azerty German grmn Icelandic iclndc Italian itln Norwegian nrwgn Spanish spnsh Swedish swdsh
• quail/cyrillic.el : languages written in Cyrillic alphabets LANGUAGES PACKAGE NAME NOTE ----------------------------------------------------------------- Russian jcuken standard layout for Russian

      		jis-russian	same as jcuken, but uses
      				JIS encoding
  

  Macedonian macedonian JUS.I.K1.004 Serbian serbian JUS.I.K1.005 Byelorussian byelorussian derived from JUS.I.K1 Ukrainian ukrainian derived from JUS.I.K1 ISO 8859-5 yawerty based on Roman transcription
• quail/greek.el : for Greek LANGUAGE PACKAGE NAME NOTE ----------------------------------------------------------------- Greek greek

      		jis-greek	same as greek, but uses
      				JIS encoding
  

• quail/hebrew.el : for Hebrew LANGUAGE PACKAGE NAME -------------------------------- Hebrew hebrew

After having loaded the appropriate file(s), you can toggle quail- minor-mode with "C-]". In the quail mode you can select a package for a particular language either typing "M-s" or evaluating (quail-use-package "package-name"). Typing "M-z" shows a brief help.

Examples:

1) If you are new to German and want to type German texts, include

   the following two lines in your .emacs.

   (load "quail/latin")
   (quail-use-package "german")

2) If you want to use the azerty layout for French, include the

   following two lines in your .emacs.

   (load "quail/ltn")
   (quail-use-package "azerty")