11.7 Help for International Language Support

You can use the command C-h L (describe-language-environment) to get information about a specific language environment. See section Language Environments. This tells you which languages this language environment supports. It also lists the character sets, coding systems, and input methods that work with this language environment, and finally shows some sample text to illustrate scripts.

The command C-h h (view-hello-file) displays the file ‘etc/HELLO’, which shows how to say “hello” in many languages.

The command C-h I (describe-input-method) describes an input method—either a specified input method, or by default the input method currently in use. See section Input Methods.

The command C-h C (describe-coding-system) describes coding systems—either a specified coding system, or the ones currently in use. See section Coding Systems.