JC> Is there any good way to input arbitrary unicode characters via the
JC> keyboard in a en_US.UTF-8 locale?

JC> I cannot find any sign of an XIM server for this.  Everything I've
JC> found seems to be targted to CJK input.

XIM is not really suitable for Unicode input, as it is a locale-
sensitive protocol that uses legacy encodings.  It might be possible
to coerce XIM to work for arbitrary Unicode text, but I'm not sure
you'd want to do that.

Sun have a new input method protocol which they claim to be more
adapted to this sort of approach; I don't have the references handy,
you may want to ask on i18n@.

If you only occasionally need to input a character not on your
keyboard, the UTF8_STRING protocol will allow you to cut and paste
arbitrary Unicode characters.  I've written a wee utility called UCM
for my private use, you can get it on

  http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/files/

                                        Juliusz
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