From: The Chief Instigator <patrick@eris.io.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Enter special characters
Date: 05 Apr 2007 23:32:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <szkwt0qrula.fsf@eris.io.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m34pnugqnp.fsf@timbral.net
thorne <thinly-disguised@spam-sucks.foo> writes:
>Hans-Christoph Wirth <hcw@despammed.com> writes:
>> Paul Batt <paul.batt@gmx.net> wrote:
>>> Is there anything like the Alt-<ISO-Nr.> function in Windows?
>> C-q takes octal arguments.
>Is this octal ASCII--or what? I would like to google for a list of
>the characters and their octal numbers, but i don't know what the
>encoding is. Or is this a big can of worms i should forget about?
It takes octal arguments - to insert a German "ss", just use C-q
0-3-3-7-return - six keystrokes, and you should get a ß inserted at the point.
(You won't get anything printable for 0000 octal through 0037 - 0040 is
a space, though - and from 0200 through 0237 (128 through 159 in decimal).)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-06 4:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-05 12:34 Enter special characters Paul Batt
2007-04-05 12:58 ` Hans-Christoph Wirth
2007-04-05 18:24 ` Paul Batt
2007-04-06 2:52 ` thorne
2007-04-06 4:32 ` The Chief Instigator [this message]
2007-04-06 11:04 ` thorne
2007-04-06 11:15 ` Joost Kremers
2007-04-06 12:59 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2007-04-06 14:22 ` The Chief Instigator
2007-04-05 13:21 ` Peter Dyballa
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