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, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 844181c334d..aa6a257a7f7 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -213,6 +213,9 @@ successive char insertions.
 
 ** Unicode names entered via C-x 8 RET now use substring completion by default.
 
+** C-x 8 now has shorthands for these chars: ‐ ‑ ‒ – — ― ‘ ’ “ ” † ‡ • ′ ″
+€ № ← → ↔ − ≈ ≠ ≤ ≥.  As before, you can type C-x 8 C-h to list shorthands.
+
 ** New minor mode global-eldoc-mode is enabled by default.
 
 ** Emacs now supports "bracketed paste mode" when running on a terminal