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An even stranger way of entering accented characters is the C-x 8 keymap. Use ‘C-x 8 C-h’ to list the characters you can enter this way. This for the convenience of those people that rarely need accents, eg. people on a German keyboard can easily type all French accented characters except for `ç’ (unless they know that for some configurations of X you can produce it using `AltGr+' c’. These people can use `C-x 8 , c’ instead.

According to the EmacsManual:

For Latin-1 only, you can use the key ‘C-x 8’ as a “compose character” prefix for entry of non-ASCII Latin-1 printing characters. ‘C-x 8’ is good for insertion (in the minibuffer as well as other buffers), for searching, and in any other context where a key sequence is allowed.
‘C-x 8’ works by loading the ‘iso-transl’ library. Once that library is loaded, the <ALT> modifier key, if the keyboard has one, serves the same purpose as ‘C-x 8’: use <ALT> together with an accent character to modify the following letter. In addition, if the keyboard has keys for the Latin-1 “dead accent characters,” they too are defined to compose with the following character, once ‘iso-transl’ is loaded.
Use ‘C-x 8 C-h’ to list all the available ‘C-x 8’ translations.

For better language support use InputMethods.


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