From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard H Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Extended ascii characters in emacs lisp Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 12:49:40 +0100 Message-ID: <4F929ED4.1080506@gmail.com> References: <4F91D6FE.50406@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1335008994 7414 80.91.229.3 (21 Apr 2012 11:49:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 11:49:54 +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 13:49:54 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 1SLYp6-0006wU-PM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 13:49:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57130 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SLYp6-0007VA-6u for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 07:49:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:34956) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SLYp1-0007V1-Ff for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 07:49:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SLYoy-0006NA-3k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 07:49:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-wg0-f49.google.com ([74.125.82.49]:42177) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SLYox-0006Jb-QY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 07:49:44 -0400 Original-Received: by wgbdr1 with SMTP id dr1so7738544wgb.30 for ; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 04:49:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=bY/VlCJSwLXI6y7ouOcROAQVA0YLCSmlf20JlbF4hD0=; b=wHUlfQj1czoJLq4/9bPU9VtFyRyQTrIPpLXmxc03Swxo4M8dfsLdEHuc5WJd5H2rTC FRzygodBCDVNmf4Zp4zXZhGV7fyRnxtkf+MVJ9aEIdacq2EKNqSIviJJB6l83ktUi7D3 hyoyjmEo+XTbYaJE/1R67augRw22GhKsMnT2y4Abz7wceljxdkQLqAFcGO9izK6ra7/5 IDZ7tD5pnSD9xTKn9ha/yUPZL/8X2NR4IAX/wEBnHndcJmWC22XbHObtXPkP2npZmfqC /vl+T7uxRsSZ3/i51LGMJZob76tZGYu3+DIv6xuQopgSJMlm0RGlYu17Z2MEf1pIK66o W5CQ== Original-Received: by 10.180.81.37 with SMTP id w5mr5616843wix.16.1335008981817; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 04:49:41 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.187] (87-194-63-158.bethere.co.uk. [87.194.63.158]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id gg2sm8194622wib.7.2012.04.21.04.49.40 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 21 Apr 2012 04:49:41 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120329 Thunderbird/11.0.1 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 74.125.82.49 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:84548 Archived-At: On 21/04/12 00:25, PJ Weisberg wrote: > Standard way according to the above link is to use the unicode code > point, i.e. "?\u2503". I used this solution. What I did not originally realise was that extended ascii is not really that well supported in Linux (my os), as it is more of a DOS / Windows standard.