Emacs: keyboard

Emacs supports national languages, even Russian and Chinese.

Our default input method is latin-1-postfix (set in site-start.el). This one offers support for most european languages. To set it temporarily in a buffer, press C-\ (this is a toggle function; the current input method is identified in the bottom left corner of the buffer).

If some bindings do not produce the expected effect, you can:

• use view-lossage, to diplay the last 100 input keystrokes which emacs has received; missing keystrokes have probably been filtered away, e.g. by the window manager, Exceed, etc.
• use describe-key, to check what function is called by a given key binding (Note: key bindings are --potentially-- local to a buffer, e.g. bound to its mode)
• use apropos, to look for a function suitable for your purpose, and where-is to find a corresponding key binding.