Re: Inputting UTF8 in Emacs

[uzibalqa]

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On Saturday, December 16th, 2023 at 10:16 PM, Stephen Berman 
<stephen.berman@gmx.net> wrote:


> On Sat, 16 Dec 2023 10:07:04 +0000 uzibalqa uzibalqa@proton.me wrote:
> 
> > I am having great difficulty introducing UTF Symbols in a document when I am
> > in Emacs.
> > 
> > I use "C-x 8 Ret LOG" to get the logical symbols. From then on, I have great
> > difficulty deciding what to do. Firstly, I cannot see the actual symbol 
> > that is
> > going to be inserted. Seeing the actual symbol is much more important that
> > see the name. And if one does a mistake, I have to restart the process 
> > again -
> > a process that is very time consuming.
> > 
> > It would be of value to simplify the way one can insert UHF8 characters. At 
> > this
> > time it is extremely hard and non-intuitive on what to do.
> 
> 
> What version of Emacs are you using? With Emacs 29 and 30, when I type
> `C-x 8 RET LOG TAB TAB', the Completions buffer pops up showing this:

Am using Emacs 30.0.50
 
Although I got it to work, can things be simplified further.  For instance,
having a command that moves from one character set to another, showing the 
same as is shown by the use of "TAB TAB".



> Click on a completion to select it.
> In this buffer, type RET to select the completion near point.
> 
> 14 possible completions:
> ∧ LOGICAL AND
> ⩑ LOGICAL AND WITH DOT ABOVE
> ⩞ LOGICAL AND WITH DOUBLE OVERBAR
> ⩠ LOGICAL AND WITH DOUBLE UNDERBAR
> ⩜ LOGICAL AND WITH HORIZONTAL DASH
> ⩚ LOGICAL AND WITH MIDDLE STEM
> ⩟ LOGICAL AND WITH UNDERBAR
> ∨ LOGICAL OR
> ⩙ LOGICAL OR OVERLAPPING LOGICAL AND
> ⩒ LOGICAL OR WITH DOT ABOVE
> ⩢ LOGICAL OR WITH DOUBLE OVERBAR
> ⩣ LOGICAL OR WITH DOUBLE UNDERBAR
> ⩝ LOGICAL OR WITH HORIZONTAL DASH
> ⩛ LOGICAL OR WITH MIDDLE STEM
> 
> Steve Berman