3 files changed, 35 insertions, 3 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.
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
diff --git a/lisp/international/iso-transl.el b/lisp/international/iso-transl.el
index 73bcae060b3..e9fb009a56e 100644
--- a/lisp/international/iso-transl.el
+++ b/lisp/international/iso-transl.el
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-;;; iso-transl.el --- keyboard input definitions for ISO 8859-1  -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+;;; iso-transl.el --- keyboard input for ISO 10646 chars -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 
 ;; Copyright (C) 1987, 1993-1999, 2001-2015 Free Software Foundation,
 ;; Inc.
@@ -36,6 +36,10 @@
 ;; to make all of the Alt keys autoload, and it is not clear
 ;; that the dead accent keys SHOULD autoload this package.
 
+;; This package supports all characters defined by ISO 8859-1, along
+;; with a few other ISO 10646 characters commonly used in English and
+;; basic math.
+
 ;;; Code:
 
 ;;; Provide some binding for startup:
@@ -192,6 +196,31 @@
     ("~o"   . [?õ])
     ("~t"   . [?þ])
     ("~~"   . [?¬])
+    ("_h"   . [?‐])
+    ("_H"   . [?‑])
+    ("_f"   . [?‒])
+    ("_n"   . [?–])
+    ("_m"   . [?—])
+    ("_q"   . [?―])
+    ("["    . [?‘])
+    ("]"    . [?’])
+    ("{"    . [?“])
+    ("}"    . [?”])
+    ("1+"   . [?†])
+    ("2+"   . [?‡])
+    ("**"   . [?•])
+    ("*'"   . [?′])
+    ("*\""  . [?″])
+    ("*E"   . [?€])
+    ("No"   . [?№])
+    ("a<"   . [?←])
+    ("a>"   . [?→])
+    ("a="   . [?↔])
+    ("_-"   . [?−])
+    ("~="   . [?≈])
+    ("/="   . [?≠])
+    ("_<"   . [?≤])
+    ("_>"   . [?≥])
     ("' "   . "'")
     ("` "   . "`")
     ("\" "  . "\"")