This is not, in fact, a bug in the system; the method of inputting Unicode character points has changed. Emacs needs a bug reported towards it, though, for its failure to accept input in this fashion.
** Changed in: gtk+2.0 (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Rejected -- Unicode keyboard entry does not work in multiple applications https://launchpad.net/bugs/59543 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs