From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Entering Unicode characters Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 10:37:01 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83twmkkv16.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1453736254 26898 80.91.229.3 (25 Jan 2016 15:37:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 15:37:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: johnw@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andrew Hyatt Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 25 16:37:25 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aNjCm-0003V1-VN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2016 16:37:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39303 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aNjCm-0004mH-2N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2016 10:37:24 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36173) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aNjCi-0004m1-62 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2016 10:37:20 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aNjCh-0003Sp-C4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2016 10:37:20 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:39151) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aNjCQ-0003Nq-UJ; Mon, 25 Jan 2016 10:37:02 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aNjCP-0004Ya-Si; Mon, 25 Jan 2016 10:37:02 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Andrew Hyatt on Sun, 24 Jan 2016 23:41:24 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:198773 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > You should be able to get the common ones with the C-x 8 commands that > work out of the box. C-x 8 may be a good replacement for iso-acc, iso-insert, iso-swed. "C-x 8 RET" > should give you any unicode character by name. 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. We need a way to enter any Unicode character that is EASY to use and does not require using its official name. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.