> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 22:15:10 +0100 > From: Richard Wordingham via Unicode <[email protected]> > > On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 21:47:03 +0200 > "Janusz S. Bień via Unicode" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > My needs are very simple, for example C-x 8 Return LATIN CAPITAL > > LETTER A WITH MACRON AND BREVE [MUFI] should yield the character with > > the code E010. I can provide the list of names and codes. > > While it should obviously yield, if anything, <U+0100, U+0306> or > <U+0041, U+0304, U+0306> for 'LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH MACRON AND > BREVE', it would probably be more important to recognise formal > aliases, such as 'LAO LETTER LO' for the input of the Lao letter lo > ling (U+0EA5 LAO LETTER LO LOOT), not to be be confused with the Lao > letter lo lot (a.k.a. ro rot), U+0EA5 LETTER LO LING. > > For <U+0100, U+0306>, I prefer to type "A\_M_X", but then I learnt > XSAMPA.
The Emacs command "C-x 8 RET" expects the name of a single codepoint. It should be possible to extend it (or perhaps provide a separate command) that produced named sequence of codepoints, such as those in the above examples, but there's no such feature as of now. If this would be a useful addition, please suggest that on the Emacs issue tracker (using "M-x report-emacs-bug"), and please include with your request the sources where we could find such named sequences to support. Thanks.
