Re: Input method or help feature needed

[Stephen Berman]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:27:45 +0200 Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:

>> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:14:27 -0500
>> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
>> 
>> Once in a while I want to enter some character that I know exists in
>> Unicode, though I know nothing about where to find it.  Today it was
>> the Turkish i without dot.
>> 
>> It is not easy to find how to enter the character you want.
>> Can anyone develop a way to make it easier?
>
> Would it be okay to have an apropos-style command that will find
> matches in the list of Unicode names of characters created by
> ucs-names?
>
> This would allow you to find what you wanted if you know that the name
> of the character has "dotless" as its substring.

The ucs-insert command already does this: typing

C-x 8 RET * dotless TAB TAB

brings up a completions buffer containing all unicode character names
matching "DOTLESS" -- including LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS I.

Steve Berman