Time we switched to unicode? (was Explanation of this Python language feature?)

[Rustom Mody]

On Tuesday, March 25, 2014 10:38:43 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 4:00 PM, Rustom Mody wrote:
> > Its already there -- and even easier
> > Switch to cyrillic-jis-russian (whatever that is!)
> > and I get л from k Л from K

> How quickly can you switch, type one letter (to generate one Cyrillic
> character), and switch back? If you can do that more quickly than
> typing a word, then (for you!) it might be worth using those letters
> as symbols.

Well Russian is Greek to me (or more correctly Russian!)
So Ive no clue about ergonomics

So let me talk of which input methods I use -- devanagari and tex.
I have devanagari-itrans set up in emacs as default (other) input method
So Ctrl-\ (ie 1½ keystrokes) puts emacs into devanagari mode

For tex Ive to type the keystroke for invoking
'set-input-method'
then spell out the input method (there seem to be hundreds)
RET

Considering that I use tex much more than devanagari I guess I should 
switch the default to tex