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"Edward Casey" <ejmn@cpinternet.com> writes:

> Has anyone out there using i386-mingw (21.3.1) successfully input unicode
> characters into buffers and saved them to files? I can see the Latin.4
> characters in the read only "List Character Sets" buffer, and can
> copypaste them into *scratch*, but I can't seem to produce them whatever
> combination of language environment, input methods, and coding systems I
> use. I suspect a font problem but I have about 200 different TT fonts in
> \windows\fonts and I know many of them have the glyphs for Latin-4
> (Extended A), certainly Arial Unicode MS and Courier. Can anyone give me a
> fail-safe recipe to input these characters?

C-u C-\ latin-4-postfix

Then type the combination of characters that is needed to compose the
character you want (eg o-)

But that won't give you Unicode. For that, you will need Emacs from
CVS AFAIK.