From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gregory Benjamin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Extended ascii characters in emacs lisp Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:06:45 -0700 Message-ID: <20120420230645.GA14311@dbn66.laserlab.com> References: <4F91D6FE.50406@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1334963216 10761 80.91.229.3 (20 Apr 2012 23:06:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 23:06:56 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 21 01:06:55 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SLMul-00019T-LS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 01:06:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50044 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SLMuk-0000fh-Rm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:06:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:55200) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SLMuf-0000fZ-LJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:06:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SLMue-00076k-0e for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:06:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.laserlab.com ([69.229.78.89]:46916 helo=dbn66.laserlab.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SLMud-00073w-FO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:06:47 -0400 Original-Received: by dbn66.laserlab.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 52F5320E1A2; Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:06:45 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4F91D6FE.50406@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 69.229.78.89 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:84536 Archived-At: On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 10:37:02PM +0100, Richard H Lee wrote: > Hi (again), >=20 > I'm using fill-column-indicator.el to set a column margin at column > 80 in emacs. Currently it uses the pipe "|" symbol as the margin > character. >=20 > I would like to change it one of the extended ascii characters, e.g. > the solid block / long vertical pipe. I can set it to standard ascii > characters using: >=20 > (setq fci-rule-character ?\101) >=20 > e.g. this will set the character to "A". But if I go over 127 into > extended-ascii, I get: >=20 > Invalid read syntax: ? >=20 > What is the emacs lisp syntax for extended ascii characters? Instead of extended ascii, I just tried unicode, for example: (ucs-insert "2503")=E2=94=83 See Unicode standard 6.1 Box Drawing for other choices. Best, Greg