Ben Bacarisse <ben.use...@bsb.me.uk>: > Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> writes: >> * I should be able to get the character by knowing its glyph >> (shape). >> >> * It should be very low-level and work system-wide, preferably over >> the network (I'm typing this over the network). > > I think you are a Gnus user so you probably already know about > insert-char (usually bound to C-x 8 RET though I've re-bound it to my > "insert" key). Because Emacs's completion facility works with embedded > words you can see Unicode characters with names that include, for > example, "dotless" or "diagonal". It's not quite "by knowing its > glyph" but it's helped me out many times.
At least it works over the network. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list