Emacs Verbose Character Entry (was Private Use Areas)

[Richard Wordingham via Unicode]

On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 21:47:03 +0200
"Janusz S. Bień via Unicode" <unicode at unicode.org> wrote:

> My needs are very simple, for example C-x 8 Return LATIN CAPITAL
> LETTER A WITH MACRON AND BREVE [MUFI] should yield the character with
> the code E010. I can provide the list of names and codes.

While it should obviously yield, if anything, <U+0100, U+0306> or
<U+0041, U+0304, U+0306> for 'LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH MACRON AND
BREVE', it would probably be more important to recognise formal
aliases, such as 'LAO LETTER LO' for the input of the Lao letter lo
ling (U+0EA5 LAO LETTER LO LOOT), not to be be confused with the Lao
letter lo lot (a.k.a. ro rot), U+0EA5 LETTER LO LING.

For <U+0100, U+0306>, I prefer to type "A\_M_X", but then I learnt
XSAMPA. 

Richard.