-including European variants of the Latin alphabet, as well as Chinese,
-Cyrillic, Devanagari (Hindi and Marathi), Ethiopic, Greek, Hebrew, IPA,
-Japanese, Korean, Lao, Thai, Tibetan, and Vietnamese scripts. These features
-have been merged from the modified version of Emacs known as MULE (for
-``MULti-lingual Enhancement to GNU Emacs'')
+including European and Vietnamese variants of the Latin alphabet, as
+well as Cyrillic, Devanagari (for Hindi and Marathi), Ethiopic, Greek,
+Han (for Chinese and Japanese), Hangul (for Korean), Hebrew, IPA,
+Kannada, Lao, Malayalam, Tamil, Thai, Tibetan, and Vietnamese scripts.
+These features have been merged from the modified version of Emacs
+known as MULE (for ``MULti-lingual Enhancement to GNU Emacs'')
+
+ Emacs also supports various encodings of these characters used by
+other internationalized software, such as word processors and mailers.
+
+ Emacs allows editing text with international characters by supporting
+all the related activities:
+
+@itemize @bullet
+@item
+You can visit files with non-@acronym{ASCII} characters, save non-@acronym{ASCII} text, and
+pass non-@acronym{ASCII} text between Emacs and programs it invokes (such as
+compilers, spell-checkers, and mailers). Setting your language
+environment (@pxref{Language Environments}) takes care of setting up the
+coding systems and other options for a specific language or culture.
+Alternatively, you can specify how Emacs should encode or decode text
+for each command; see @ref{Specify Coding}.
+
+@item
+You can display non-@acronym{ASCII} characters encoded by the various scripts.
+This works by using appropriate fonts on X and similar graphics
+displays (@pxref{Defining Fontsets}), and by sending special codes to
+text-only displays (@pxref{Specify Coding}). If some characters are
+displayed incorrectly, refer to @ref{Undisplayable Characters}, which
+describes possible problems and explains how to solve them.
+
+@item
+You can insert non-@acronym{ASCII} characters or search for them. To do that,
+you can specify an input method (@pxref{Select Input Method}) suitable
+for your language, or use the default input method set up when you set
+your language environment. If
+your keyboard can produce non-@acronym{ASCII} characters, you can select an
+appropriate keyboard coding system (@pxref{Specify Coding}), and Emacs
+will accept those characters. Latin-1 characters can also be input by
+using the @kbd{C-x 8} prefix, see @ref{Single-Byte Character Support,
+C-x 8}. On X Window systems, your locale should be set to an
+appropriate value to make sure Emacs interprets keyboard input
+correctly; see @ref{Language Environments, locales}.
+@end itemize
+
+ The rest of this chapter describes these issues in detail.