unicode by default

[Ben Finney]

Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> writes:

> You need what is called, at least with Windows, an IME -- Input Method
> Editor.

For a GNOME or KDE environment you want an input method framework; I
recommend IBus <URL:http://code.google.com/p/ibus/> which comes with the
major GNU+Linux operating systems <URL:http://oswatershed.org/pkg/ibus>
<URL:http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/ibus> .

Then you have a wide range of input methods available. Many of them are
specific to local writing systems. For writing special characters in
English text, I use either ‘rfc1345’ or ‘latex’ within IBus.

That allows special characters to be typed into any program which
communicates with the desktop environment's input routines. Yay, unified
input of special characters!

Except Emacs :-( which fortunately has ‘ibus-el’ available to work with
IBus <URL:http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/IBusMode> :-).

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Ben Finney