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 another prefix, like:

(global-set-key (kbd "C-x  a") "α")
(global-set-key (kbd "C-x  b") "β")

Or use global-abbrev-table as it's explained on the page you mentioned.