Text input with keyboard, via input methods

[Marko Rauhamaa]

Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet at bsb.me.uk>:

> Marko Rauhamaa <marko at pacujo.net> writes:
>>  * I should be able to get the character by knowing its glyph
>>    (shape).
>>
>>  * It should be very low-level and work system-wide, preferably over
>>    the network (I'm typing this over the network).
>
> I think you are a Gnus user so you probably already know about
> insert-char (usually bound to C-x 8 RET though I've re-bound it to my
> "insert" key). Because Emacs's completion facility works with embedded
> words you can see Unicode characters with names that include, for
> example, "dotless" or "diagonal". It's not quite "by knowing its
> glyph" but it's helped me out many times.

At least it works over the network.


Marko