[OT] Re: Voting for forum posts

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Friday, 2 April 2021 at 10:07:14 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 4/2/2021 12:58 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>>> @Vladimir, I think something went wrong with the rich text 
>>> thingy. This message shows "–" in Thunderbird.
>> 
>> They are that way because the author typed them that way. It 
>> is probably the easiest way to type those characters on many 
>> systems.
>
> I cast about for a long time on the easiest way to add Unicode 
> characters in microEmacs. I finally settled on placing the 
> cursor over a character, and hitting ^X-U. It will scroll 
> through related symbols. Put it over an a, and it will scroll 
> through ä, etc. You don't need to remember anything but "it 
> looks like an a".
>
> Of course this doesn't remotely handle all Unicode characters, 
> but it gets the most used ones.

Here is how I do it:

https://dump.cy.md/de83f239e276fa30d882c736f8fba7f3/2021-04-02%2010%3A09%3A45.mp4

😃