C-x 8 shorthands for curved quotes, Euro, etc.

Although C-x 8 lets you insert arbitrary Unicode characters,
it's awkward to use this to insert commonly used symbols such as curved
quotes, the Euro symbol, etc.  This patch adds simpler sequences for
characters commonly found in English text and in basic math.
For example, assuming the Alt key works on your keyboard and iso-transl
is loaded, one can now type "A-[" instead of "A-RET LEFT SIN TAB RET"
to get the character "‘" (U+2018 LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK).
(Bug#20499)
* doc/emacs/mule.texi (Unibyte Mode):
A few other printing characters now work too.
* etc/NEWS: Document this.
* lisp/international/iso-transl.el (iso-transl-char-map):
Also support the following characters:
‐ ‑ ‒ – — ― ‘ ’ “ ” † ‡ • ′ ″ € № ← → ↔ − ≈ ≠ ≤ ≥

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/doc/emacs/mule.texi b/doc/emacs/mule.texi
index de381dfa1e8..d929e0947e1 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/mule.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/mule.texi
@@ -1660,8 +1660,8 @@ characters present directly on the keyboard or using @key{Compose} or
 @cindex compose character
 @cindex dead character
 @item
-For Latin-1 only, you can use the key @kbd{C-x 8} as a ``compose
-character'' prefix for entry of non-@acronym{ASCII} Latin-1 printing
+You can use the key @kbd{C-x 8} as a ``compose character'' prefix for
+entry of non-@acronym{ASCII} Latin-1 and a few other printing
 characters.  @kbd{C-x 8} is good for insertion (in the minibuffer as
 well as other buffers), for searching, and in any other context where
 a key sequence is allowed.