How to enter Greek characters in Emacs

Question

This page indicates that Greek letters can be inserted into Emacs by using M-i. However, Emacs 23.2.1 in a Debian Squeeze variant inserts the \"tab\" character when

Answer 1

You can use ucs-insert bound to C-x8RET to insert any Unicode characters by name or by value.

For example to insert a lambda you can do

• C-x8RET GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMBDA RET → λ
• C-x8RET 03bb RET → λ

A tab-completion is also available.

C-x8RET* lambdaTAB will list every unicode characters ended by a lambda.