>> and ~5000 other rules for many Unicode characters. >> >> Do you know a better method to input Unicode characters? > > rfc1345 isn't too bad. It also uses mnemonics to a degree (though they > are often kind of weird), and has pretty good coverage. I noticed rfc1345 is already implemented in leim/quail/rfc1345.el. BTW, this file is detected as binary. I think it's better to replace non-printable control characters with equivalent text-only notations: