multiple language dvi generation

[Petr Šimon]

Hi,
I am very fresh beginner and I am just unable to get over this:
I want to type in emacs using few dofferent languages (chinese, 
diacritics, ipa). To this point I found my way. Should I use the 
enriched-mode for this? I have read manual ant gnu.org, but I am 
probably little bit too slow with these things. When I type my text 
(many different languages with different encodings) I have to edit it 
with latex commands like "\begin{document}" and so on, am I right? 
Otherwise I can't generate dvi, right? I definitely wont to edit it to 
get good typesetting and to use tipa, but how do I tell it that it 
contains normal characters with diacritis or chinese characters (ig: 
čěšýáěířýčšé 我不知道)? Do I have to do it? Because anytime I add some 
diacritics or chinese to the tex source and then try to get dvi via 
latex it complains and ends with "?" :
latex p1.tex
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5)
(./p1.tex
LaTeX2e <2001/06/01>
Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, 
ngerman, c
zech, nohyphenation, loaded.
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size12.clo))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/psnfss/palatino.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/latex2html/url.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/czech.ldf
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/babel.def)))
No file p1.aux.
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/psnfss/ot1ppl.fd)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/psnfss/omsppl.fd)
! Text line contains an invalid character.
l.27 ^^[

.B^^8e^^ec=^^8e^^f8^^8e^^fd^^8e^^ed^^8e^^b9^^8e^^e8^^8e^^ed^^8e^^e1^...

?

I am again sorry for such a post, but I am really desperate for some 
help. Thanks in advance
Petr