Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:

> On 2016-01-25, at 16:37, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:

>> That is useless in practice, because it requires users to know these
>> long and often obscure names.  When I wanted to do this, I was unable
>> to do it with C-x 8.  I was totally stumped!  All I could do was try
>> to find a file which had the character I wanted.
>>
> Have you heard about autocompletion?

Here is the current capability of `counsel-unicode-char' which is
included in the GNU ELPA swiper package. Note how the regex boundaries
"\b" are used to closely match the letter "a".