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[nospam.Skip Montanaro]

> I strongly suspect that any recent emacs will have M-x insert-char
> (earlier it was called ucs-insert) default bound C-x 8 RET (yeah thats
clunky)
> which will accept at the minibuffer input

I tried C-x 8 e acute TAB

and was prompted with "E-acute". I don't know why it would have capitalized the
 "e". Still, I plowed ahead and hit RET

which yielded an "Invalid character" message in the minibuffer.

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