Input methods in Emacs Dec 13, 2017 To access multilingual support in Emacs, one easy way is by typing C-\ and then selecting an input method. The following functions are also useful: M-x : list-input-methods -it provides the list of input methods. M-x : describe-input-methods - it shows the key sequences and the corresponding input characters for a specific input method. C-h I : the same. Phonetics There are several input functions for inserting IPA symbols two of the most common ones are the ipa-praat and ipa-x-sampa. If you are transcribing English, French, German and Italian you may find the IPA convenient. For Greek someone might want to download the IPA keyboard from my GitHub account, which works with all applications across a system. Semantics/Logic The Tex input set provides several symbols that are useful, e.g., Greek letters, unary operators, relation operators, binary operators, negated binary operators, set and/or logic notation, delimiters, arrows, etc. Languages There are input methods that provide graphemes for most languages. Input Methods The list of the available input methods available are listed below. Arabic arabic (‘ع’ in mode line) Arabic input method. Assamese assamese-inscript (‘AsmIS’ in mode line) Assamese keyboard Inscript assamese-itrans (‘AsmIT’ in mode line) Assamese ITRANS Belarusian belarusian (‘BE’ in mode line) ЙЦУКЕН keyboard layout registered as STB955-94 Belarusian standard. Bengali bengali-probhat (‘BngPB’ in mode line) Probhat keyboard for Bengali/Bangla bengali-inscript (‘BngIS’ in mode line) Bengali keyboard Inscript bengali-itrans (‘BngIT’ in mode line) Bengali ITRANS Bulgarian bulgarian-bds (‘БДС’ in mode line) Bulgarian standard keyboard layout (BDS) bulgarian-phonetic (‘ЖБФ’ in mode line) Bulgarian Phonetic keyboard layout, producing Unicode. bulgarian-alt-phonetic (‘БНФ’ in mode line) Bulgarian alternative Phonetic keyboard layout, producing Unicode. Chinese chinese-sisheng (‘ǚ’ in mode line) Sìshēng input method for pīnyīn transliteration of Chinese. Chinese-BIG5 chinese-zozy (‘零注’ in mode line) 中文輸入【零壹注音】 chinese-b5-quick (‘簡B’ in mode line) 中文輸入【簡易】BIG5 chinese-punct-b5 (‘標B’ in mode line) 中文輸入【標點符號】 chinese-array30 (‘３０’ in mode line) 中文【行列３０】 chinese-py-b5 (‘拼B’ in mode line) 漢字輸入::拼音:: chinese-ecdict (‘英漢’ in mode line) 中文輸入【英漢辭典】 chinese-b5-tsangchi (‘倉B’ in mode line) 中文輸入【倉頡】BIG5 chinese-4corner (‘四角’ in mode line) 四角號碼:: chinese-py-punct-b5 (‘拼符’ in mode line) 中文輸入【拼音】 and ‘v’ for 標點符號輸入 chinese-qj-b5 (‘全B’ in mode line) 漢字輸入::全角:: chinese-etzy (‘倚注’ in mode line) 中文輸入【倚天注音】 chinese-ctlaub (‘劉粵’ in mode line) 漢字輸入：劉錫祥式粵音： Chinese-CNS chinese-cns-quick (‘簡C’ in mode line) 中文輸入【簡易】CNS chinese-cns-tsangchi (‘倉C’ in mode line) 中文輸入【倉頡】CNS Chinese-GB chinese-tonepy (‘调拼’ in mode line) 汉字输入∷带调拼音∷ chinese-ctlau (‘刘粤’ in mode line) 汉字输入∷刘锡祥式粤音∷ chinese-py (‘拼G’ in mode line) 汉字输入∷拼音∷ chinese-qj (‘全G’ in mode line) 汉字输入∷全角∷ chinese-tonepy-punct (‘拼符’ in mode line) 汉字输入 带调拼音方案 and ‘v’ for 标点符号输入 chinese-py-punct (‘拼符’ in mode line) 汉字输入 拼音方案 and ‘v’ for 标点符号输入 chinese-ziranma (‘自然’ in mode line) 汉字输入∷【自然】∷ chinese-punct (‘标G’ in mode line) 汉字输入∷标点符号∷\243\240 chinese-ccdospy (‘缩拼’ in mode line) 汉字输入∷缩写拼音∷ chinese-sw (‘首尾’ in mode line) 汉字输入∷首尾∷ Croatian croatian-cc (‘HR’ in mode line) Another alternative Croatian input method. croatian-xy (‘HR’ in mode line) An alternative Croatian input method. croatian-postfix (‘HR’ in mode line) Croatian input method, postfix. croatian-prefix (‘HR’ in mode line) Croatian input method, prefix. croatian-qwerty (‘HR’ in mode line) Croatian keyboard without the y/z swap. croatian (‘HR’ in mode line) “Standard” Croatian keyboard. Cyrillic cyrillic-translit (‘Жt’ in mode line) Intuitively transliterated keyboard layout. cyrillic-yawerty (‘ЖЯ’ in mode line) ЯВЕРТЫ Roman transcription cyrillic-serbian (‘ЖS’ in mode line) ЉЊЕРТЗ-ЂЋ keyboard layout based on JUS.I.K1.005 cyrillic-macedonian (‘ЖM’ in mode line) ЉЊЕРТЗ-ЃЌ keyboard layout based on JUS.I.K1.004 cyrillic-jis-russian (‘ЖЙ’ in mode line) ЙЦУКЕН keyboard layout same as JCUKEN (JIS X0208.1983 encoding) Czech czech-prog-3 (‘CZ’ in mode line) Czech (non-standard) keyboard for programmers compatible with the default czech-prog-2 (‘CZ’ in mode line) Czech (non-standard) keyboard for programmers #2. czech-prog-1 (‘CZ’ in mode line) Czech (non-standard) keyboard for programmers #1. czech-qwerty (‘CZ’ in mode line) “Standard” Czech keyboard in the Windows NT 105 keys version, QWERTY layout. czech (‘CZ’ in mode line) “Standard” Czech keyboard in the Windows NT 105 keys version. Devanagari devanagari-inscript (‘DevIS’ in mode line) Devanagari keyboard Inscript devanagari-aiba (‘DevAB’ in mode line) Devanagari Aiba devanagari-kyoto-harvard (‘DevKH’ in mode line) Devanagari Kyoto-Harvard devanagari-itrans (‘DevIT’ in mode line) Devanagari ITRANS Dutch dutch (‘NL’ in mode line) Dutch character mixfix input method. English english-dvorak (‘DV@’ in mode line) English (ASCII) input method simulating Dvorak keyboard programmer-dvorak (‘DVP@’ in mode line) An English (ASCII) dvorak layout optimized for programming, with for example Ethiopic ethiopic (‘ፊደል ’ in mode line) Quail package for Ethiopic (Tigrigna and Amharic) French french-azerty (‘AZ@’ in mode line) French (Français) input method simulating Azerty keyboard french-keyboard (‘FR@’ in mode line) French (Français) input method simulating some French keyboard french-postfix (‘FR<’ in mode line) French (Français) input method with postfix modifiers french-alt-postfix (‘FR<’ in mode line) French (Français) input method with postfix modifiers french-prefix (‘FR>’ in mode line) French (Français) input method with prefix modifiers Georgian georgian (‘გ’ in mode line) A common Georgian transliteration (using Unicode) German german (‘DE@’ in mode line) German (Deutsch) input method simulating SUN German keyboard german-postfix (‘DE<’ in mode line) German (Deutsch) input method german-prefix (‘DE>’ in mode line) German (Deutsch) input method with prefix modifiers Greek greek (‘Ω’ in mode line) Ελληνικά: Greek keyboard layout (ISO 8859-7) greek-ibycus4 (‘IB’ in mode line) The Ibycus4 input method for Classical Greek using mule-unicode-0100-24ff. greek-babel (‘BG’ in mode line) The TeX Babel input method for Classical Greek using mule-unicode-0100-24ff. greek-mizuochi (‘CG’ in mode line) The Mizuochi input method for Classical Greek using mule-unicode-0100-24ff. greek-jis (‘Ω’ in mode line) Ελληνικα: Greek keyboard layout (JIS X0208.1983) GreekPost greek-postfix (‘Ψ’ in mode line) Ελληνικά: Greek keyboard layout with postfix accents (ISO 8859-7) Gujarati gujarati-inscript (‘GjrIS’ in mode line) Gujarati keyboard Inscript gujarati-itrans (‘GjrIT’ in mode line) Gujarati ITRANS Hebrew yiddish-keyman (‘ײק’ in mode line) Yiddish Keyman input method. yiddish-royal (‘ײר’ in mode line) Yiddish Royal input method. hebrew-biblical-sil (‘סִל’ in mode line) Biblical Hebrew SIL input method. hebrew-biblical-tiro (‘תִרֹ’ in mode line) Biblical Hebrew Tiro input method. hebrew-full (‘עִ֫’ in mode line) Hebrew Full method. hebrew-lyx (‘לִ’ in mode line) Hebrew LyX input method. hebrew-new (‘ע’ in mode line) Hebrew SI-1452 new draft input method. hebrew (‘ע’ in mode line) Hebrew SI-1452 input method. IPA ipa-x-sampa (‘IPA-X’ in mode line) The International Phonetic Alphabet, using J.C. Wells’ X-SAMPA. ipa-kirshenbaum (‘IPA-K’ in mode line) The International Phonetic Alphabet, using Kirshenbaum ASCII translit. ipa (‘IPA’ in mode line) International Phonetic Alphabet for English, French, German and Italian ipa-praat (‘IPAP’ in mode line) International Phonetic Alphabet input method. This follows the input method of the phonetic analysis program Praat (https://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/). Vowels Unrounded front centr. back close i i ɨ \i- ɯ \mt close centr. ɪ \ic close-mid e e ɘ \e- ɤ \rh ə \sw open-mid ɛ \ef ɜ \er ʌ \vt æ \ae ɐ \at open a a ɑ \as Rounded front centr. back close centr. ʏ \yc ʊ \hs close-mid ø \o/ ɵ \o- o o open-mid œ \oe ɞ \kb ɔ \ct open ɶ \Oe ɒ \ab For most of the codes, the first letter tells you the most similar letter of the English alphabet. The second letter can be t (turned), c (capital), s (script), r (reversed), - (barred or retracted), or / (slashed). One symbol (ɛ) is a phonetic version of a Greek letter. The codes for ə, ɤ, ʊ and ɞ are abbreviations for schwa, ram’s horn, horseshoe, and kidney bean. Consonants Pulmonic plos. nasal fric. approx. trill tap/flap l. appr. bilabial p p m m ɸ \ff b b β \bf ʋ \vs ʙ \bc labiodent. ɱ \mj f f v v dental θ \tf ð \dh alveolar t t n n s s ɾ \fh d d z z ɹ \rt r r l l alv. lat. ɬ \l- ɺ \rl ɮ \lz l l l l postalv. ʃ \sh ʒ \zh retroflex ʈ \t. ɳ \n. ʂ \s. ɽ \f. ɖ \d. ʐ \z. ɻ \r. ɭ \l. alv.-pala. ɕ \cc ʑ \zc palatal c c ɲ \nj ç \c, ɟ \j. ʝ \jc j j ʎ \yt lab.-pal. ɥ \ht lab.-vela. ʍ \wt w w velar k k ŋ \ng x x ʟ \lc ɡ \gs ɣ \gf ɰ \ml uvular q q ɴ \nc χ \cf ɢ \gc ʁ \ri ʀ \rc pharyngeal ħ \h- ʕ \9e epiglottal ʡ \?- ʜ \hc ʢ \9- glottal ʔ h h ɦ \h^ Nonpulmonic implosive click bilabial ɓ \b^ ʘ \O. dental ǀ \ 1 alveolar ɗ \d^ alv.-lat. ǁ \ 2 postalv. ǂ \ - retrofl. ! ! palatal ʄ \j^ velar ɠ \g^ uvular ʛ \G^ For most of the codes, the first letter tells you the most similar letter of the English alphabet. The second letter can be t (turned), c (capital or curled), s (script), - (barred), l (with leg), i (inverted), or j (left tail). Some phonetic symbols are similar to Greek letters but have special phonetic (f) versions with serifs (ɸ, β, ɣ) or are otherwise slightly different (θ, χ). The codes for ŋ (engma), ð (eth), ʃ (esh), and ʒ (yogh) are traditional alternative spellings. The retroflexes have a period in the second place, because an alternative traditional spelling is to write a dot under them. The code for ɾ is an abbreviation for fishhook. Diacritics In line input example description \:f ː phonetic length sign \’1 ˈ primary stress \’2 ˌ secondary stress \cn t̚ unreleased plosive \rh ɜ˞ rhotacized vowel Understrikes input example description \ v n̩ syllabic consonant \0v b̥ voiceless \Tv o̞ lowered \T^ o̝ raised \T( o̘ advanced tongue root \T) o̙ retracted tongue root \v e̱ backed \+v o̟ fronted \:v o̤ breathy voice \~v o̰ creaky voice \Nv d̪ dental (as opposed to alveolar) \Uv d̺ apical \Dv d̻ laminal \nv u̯ nonsyllabic \e3v e̹ slightly rounded \cv u̜ slightly unrounded Overstrikes input example description \0^ ɣ̊ voiceless \’^ high tone \‘^ low tone \^ mid tone \~^ nasalized \v^ rising tone \^^ falling tone \:^ centralized \N^ short \li k͡p simultaneous articulation or single segment Japanese japanese-katakana (‘ア’ in mode line) Japanese katakana input method by Roman transliteration. japanese-hiragana (‘あ’ in mode line) Japanese hiragana input method by Roman transliteration. japanese-hankaku-kana (‘ｱ’ in mode line) Japanese hankaku katakana input method by Roman transliteration. japanese-zenkaku (‘Ａ’ in mode line) Japanese zenkaku alpha numeric character input method. japanese-ascii (‘Aa’ in mode line) Temporary ASCII input mode used within the input method ‘japanese’. japanese (‘Aあ’ in mode line) Japanese input method by Roman transliteration and Kana-Kanji conversion. Kannada kannada-inscript (‘KndIS’ in mode line) Kannada keyboard Inscript kannada-itrans (‘KndIT’ in mode line) Kannada ITRANS Korean korean-hanja-jis (‘漢2’ in mode line) 2벌식JIS漢字: 該當하는 漢字의 韻을 한글2벌式으로 呼出하여 選擇 korean-hanja3 (‘漢3’ in mode line) 3벌식KSC漢字: 該當하는 漢字의 韻을 한글3벌式으로 呼出하여 選擇 korean-symbol (‘심벌’ in mode line) 한글심벌입력표: korean-hanja (‘漢2’ in mode line) 2벌식KSC漢字: 該當하는 漢字의 韻을 한글2벌式으로 呼出하여 選擇 Lao lao-lrt (‘ລR’ in mode line) Lao input method using LRT (Lao Roman Transcription). lao (‘ລ’ in mode line) Lao input method simulating Lao keyboard layout based on Thai TIS620 Latin latin-postfix (‘L<’ in mode line) Latin character input method with postfix modifiers. latin-alt-postfix (‘L<’ in mode line) Latin character input method with postfix modifiers. latin-prefix (‘L>’ in mode line) Latin characters input method with prefix modifiers. Latin-1 italian-keyboard (‘IT@’ in mode line) Italian (Italiano) input method simulating SUN Italian keyboard finnish-keyboard (‘FI@’ in mode line) Finnish input method simulating SUN Finnish/Swedish keyboard swedish-keyboard (‘SV@’ in mode line) Swedish (Svenska) input method simulating SUN Swedish/Finnish keyboard norwegian-keyboard (‘NO@’ in mode line) Norwegian (Norsk) input method simulating SUN Norwegian keyboard danish-keyboard (‘DA@’ in mode line) Danish input method simulating SUN Danish keyboard icelandic-keyboard (‘IS@’ in mode line) Icelandic (Íslenska) input method simulating some Icelandic keyboard british (‘£@’ in mode line) British English input method with Latin-1 character £ (# -> £) swedish-postfix (‘SV<’ in mode line) Swedish (Svenska) input method (rule: AA -> Å AE -> Ä OE -> Ö E’ -> É) scandinavian-postfix (‘SC<’ in mode line) Scandinavian input method with postfix modifiers norwegian-postfix (‘NO<’ in mode line) Norwegian (Norsk) input method (rule: AE->Æ OE->Ø AA->Å E’->É) italian-postfix (‘IT<’ in mode line) Italian (Italiano) input method with postfix modifiers icelandic-postfix (‘IS<’ in mode line) Icelandic (Íslenska) input method with postfix modifiers finnish-postfix (‘FI<’ in mode line) Finnish (Suomi) input method danish-postfix (‘DA<’ in mode line) Danish input method (rule: AE -> Æ, OE -> Ø, AA -> Å, E’ -> É) latin-1-postfix (‘1<’ in mode line) Latin-1 character input method with postfix modifiers italian-alt-postfix (‘IT<’ in mode line) Italian (Italiano) input method with postfix modifiers latin-1-alt-postfix (‘1<’ in mode line) Latin-1 character input method with postfix modifiers portuguese-prefix (‘PT>’ in mode line) Portuguese input method with prefix modifiers irish-prefix (‘GA>’ in mode line) Irish input method with prefix modifiers catalan-prefix (‘CA>’ in mode line) Catalan and Spanish input method with prefix modifiers latin-1-prefix (‘1>’ in mode line) Latin-1 characters input method with prefix modifiers Latin-2 latin-2-postfix (‘2<’ in mode line) Latin-2 character input method with postfix modifiers latin-2-alt-postfix (‘2<’ in mode line) Latin-2 character input method with postfix modifiers latin-2-prefix (‘2>’ in mode line) Latin-2 characters input method with prefix modifiers Latin-3 esperanto-postfix (‘EO<’ in mode line) Esperanto input method with postfix modifiers latin-3-postfix (‘3<’ in mode line) Latin-3 character input method with postfix modifiers latin-3-alt-postfix (‘3<’ in mode line) Latin-3 character input method with postfix modifiers latin-3-prefix (‘3>’ in mode line) Latin-3 characters input method with prefix modifiers esperanto-prefix (‘EO>’ in mode line) Esperanto input method with prefix modifiers Latin-4 latin-4-postfix (‘4<’ in mode line) Latin-4 characters input method with postfix modifiers latin-4-alt-postfix (‘4<’ in mode line) Latin-4 characters input method with postfix modifiers Latin-5 latin-5-postfix (‘5<’ in mode line) Latin-5 characters input method with postfix modifiers latin-5-alt-postfix (‘5<’ in mode line) Latin-5 characters input method with postfix modifiers Latin-8 latin-8-prefix (‘8>’ in mode line) Latin-8 characters input method with prefix modifiers Latin-9 latin-9-prefix (‘0>’ in mode line) Latin-9 characters input method with prefix modifiers Latvian latvian-keyboard (‘Lv’ in mode line) Latvian standard keyboard input method. Lithuanian lithuanian-keyboard (‘Lt’ in mode line) Lithuanian standard keyboard input method. lithuanian-numeric (‘LtN’ in mode line) Lithuanian numeric input method. Malayalam malayalam-inscript (‘MlmIS’ in mode line) Malayalam keyboard Inscript malayalam-itrans (‘MlmIT’ in mode line) Malayalam ITRANS Oriya oriya-inscript (‘OriIS’ in mode line) Oriya keyboard Inscript oriya-itrans (‘OriIT’ in mode line) Oriya ITRANS Persian farsi-transliterate-banan (‘ب’ in mode line) Intuitive transliteration keyboard layout for persian/farsi. farsi-isiri-9147 (‘ ف’ in mode line) Farsi keyboard based on ISIRI-9147. Polish polish-slash (‘PL>’ in mode line) Polish diacritics and slash character are input as ‘/[acelnosxzACELNOSXZ/]’. Punjabi punjabi-inscript (‘PnjIS’ in mode line) Punjabi keyboard Inscript punjabi-itrans (‘PnjIT’ in mode line) Punjabi ITRANS Romanian romanian-alt-prefix (‘RO>’ in mode line) Alternative Romanian (româneşte) input method with prefix modifiers romanian-prefix (‘RO>’ in mode line) Romanian (româneşte) input method with prefix modifiers Russian russian-computer (‘RU’ in mode line) ЙЦУКЕН Russian computer layout cyrillic-jcuken (‘ЖЙ’ in mode line) ЙЦУКЕН Russian typewriter layout (ISO 8859-5 encoding). russian-typewriter (‘ЖЙ’ in mode line) ЙЦУКЕН Russian typewriter layout (ISO 8859-5 encoding). Slovak slovak-prog-3 (‘SK’ in mode line) Slovak (non-standard) keyboard for programmers #3. slovak-prog-2 (‘SK’ in mode line) Slovak (non-standard) keyboard for programmers #2. slovak-prog-1 (‘SK’ in mode line) Slovak (non-standard) keyboard for programmers #1. slovak (‘SK’ in mode line) Standard Slovak keyboard. Slovenian slovenian (‘Sl’ in mode line) Slovenian postfix input. Spanish spanish-keyboard (‘ES@’ in mode line) Spanish (Español) input method simulating SUN Spanish keyboard spanish-postfix (‘ES<’ in mode line) Spanish (Español) input method with postfix modifiers spanish-prefix (‘ES>’ in mode line) Spanish (Español) input method with prefix modifiers Tamil tamil-inscript (‘TmlIS’ in mode line) Tamil keyboard Inscript tamil-itrans (‘TmlIT’ in mode line) Tamil ITRANS tamil-dvorak (‘யளனக’ in mode line) யளனக Tamil keyboard layout for use with Unicode (UTF-8 encoding) Telugu telugu-inscript (‘TlgIS’ in mode line) Telugu keyboard Inscript telugu-itrans (‘TlgIT’ in mode line) Telugu ITRANS Thai thai-pattachote (‘กป>’ in mode line) Thai Pattachote input method with TIS620 keyboard layout thai-kesmanee (‘กก>’ in mode line) Thai Kesmanee input method with TIS620 keyboard layout Tibetan tibetan-tibkey (‘TIBt’ in mode line) Tibetan character input by TibKey key assignment. tibetan-wylie (‘TIBw’ in mode line) Tibetan character input by Extended Wylie key assignment. Turkish turkish-postfix (‘TR<’ in mode line) Turkish (Türkçe) input method with postfix modifiers. turkish-alt-postfix (‘TR«’ in mode line) Turkish (Türkçe) input method with postfix modifiers. UTF-8 korean-hangul3 (‘한390’ in mode line) Hangul 3-Bulsik 390 Input korean-hangul390 (‘한390’ in mode line) Hangul 3-Bulsik 390 Input korean-hangul3f (‘한3f’ in mode line) Hangul 3-Bulsik final Input korean-hangul (‘한2’ in mode line) Hangul 2-Bulsik Input ucs (‘U+’ in mode line) Unicode input as hex in the form Uxxxx. TeX (‘\’ in mode line) LaTeX-like input method for many characters. These characters are from the charsets used by the ‘utf-8’ coding system, including many technical ones. Examples: 'a -> á `{a} -> à \pi -> π \int -> ∫ ^1 -> ¹ rfc1345 (‘m’ in mode line) Unicode characters input method using RFC1345 mnemonics (non-ASCII only). sgml (‘&’ in mode line) Unicode characters input method using SGML entities. Ukrainian ukrainian-computer (‘UK’ in mode line) ЙЦУКЕН Ukrainian (Unicode-based for use with KOI8-U encoding). cyrillic-ukrainian (‘ЖU’ in mode line) ЄЇЕРТЗ-ІЎ UKRAINIAN Vietnamese vietnamese-vni (‘VV’ in mode line) Vietnamese VNI input method vietnamese-viqr (‘VQ’ in mode line) Vietnamese input method with VIQR mnemonic system vietnamese-telex (‘VT’ in mode line) Vietnamese telex input method Welsh welsh (‘Ŵ’ in mode line) Welsh postfix input method