\200 character

\200 character

[TheFlyingDutchman]

In trying to save the (describe-function xxxx) output to a file, I
found that several commands have non-ASCII characters in their help
text - html-mode, isearch-mode, sgml-mode, turkish-case-conversion-
enable and xml-mode.

For the xxx-mode commands, the non-ascii characters are displayed as :

1)  \200   (decimal value of 128)
 2) lowercase y with two dots over it.  (decimal value  2303)

e.g. for xml-mode you have a line with:

\200 .. { y with two dots over it } sgml-maybe-name-self

I am wondering what is the key combination that they are showing? That
is, how would I input \200 or y-with-two-dots from a standard
keyboard? Also, why are two dots shown separating the two characters?

Re: \200 character

[TheFlyingDutchman]

When trying to save a file that has \200 in it with (save-buffer)
Emacs will prompt with "Select coding system (default mule-utf-8):"
and stop and wait for a response. Is there a way to avoid that prompt
and have it automatically save it as "mule-utf-8".

Re: \200 character

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: TheFlyingDutchman <zzbbaadd@aol.com>
> Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 11:20:00 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> When trying to save a file that has \200 in it with (save-buffer)
> Emacs will prompt with "Select coding system (default mule-utf-8):"
> and stop and wait for a response. Is there a way to avoid that prompt
> and have it automatically save it as "mule-utf-8".

Yes: "C-x RET f utf-8 RET C-x C-s".

Re: \200 character

[A.Politz]

On Aug 6, 8:13 pm, TheFlyingDutchman <zzbba...@aol.com> wrote:
> In trying to save the (describe-function xxxx) output to a file, I
> found that several commands have non-ASCII characters in their help
> text - html-mode, isearch-mode, sgml-mode, turkish-case-conversion-
> enable and xml-mode.
>
> For the xxx-mode commands, the non-ascii characters are displayed as :
>
> 1)  \200   (decimal value of 128)
>  2) lowercase y with two dots over it.  (decimal value  2303)
>
> e.g. for xml-mode you have a line with:
>
> \200 .. { y with two dots over it } sgml-maybe-name-self
>
> I am wondering what is the key combination that they are showing? That
> is, how would I input \200 or y-with-two-dots from a standard
> keyboard? Also, why are two dots shown separating the two characters?

The dots indicate a range of keys to which the function is bound.

You can input any character by using its octal value with C-q.
C-q 200 RET
Read the function description of this command for more info.

You can find out about a characters code with
C-x =
.

-ap

Re: \200 character

[TheFlyingDutchman]

On Aug 6, 11:56 am, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote:
> > From: TheFlyingDutchman <zzbba...@aol.com>
> > Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 11:20:00 -0700 (PDT)
>
> > When trying to save a file that has \200 in it with (save-buffer)
> > Emacs will prompt with "Select coding system (default mule-utf-8):"
> > and stop and wait for a response. Is there a way to avoid that prompt
> > and have it automatically save it as "mule-utf-8".
>
> Yes: "C-x RET f utf-8 RET C-x C-s".

Thanks Eli!

Re: \200 character

[TheFlyingDutchman]

On Aug 6, 1:34 pm, "A.Politz" <poli...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 6, 8:13 pm, TheFlyingDutchman <zzbba...@aol.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > In trying to save the (describe-function xxxx) output to a file, I
> > found that several commands have non-ASCII characters in their help
> > text - html-mode, isearch-mode, sgml-mode, turkish-case-conversion-
> > enable and xml-mode.
>
> > For the xxx-mode commands, the non-ascii characters are displayed as :
>
> > 1)  \200   (decimal value of 128)
> >  2) lowercase y with two dots over it.  (decimal value  2303)
>
> > e.g. for xml-mode you have a line with:
>
> > \200 .. { y with two dots over it } sgml-maybe-name-self
>
> > I am wondering what is the key combination that they are showing? That
> > is, how would I input \200 or y-with-two-dots from a standard
> > keyboard? Also, why are two dots shown separating the two characters?
>
> The dots indicate a range of keys to which the function is bound
>
> You can input any character by using its octal value with C-q.
> C-q 200 RET
> Read the function description of this command for more info.
>
> You can find out about a characters code with
> C-x =
> .

Thanks AP!