From: Oliver Scholz <alkibiades@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: hexadecimal unicode input ?
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 10:58:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u7k3gksvx.fsf@ID-87814.user.dfncis.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: bm0ekd$9di$00$1@news.t-online.com
Thomas Langen <langen@langensoft.de> writes:
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>>From: Thomas Langen <langen@langensoft.de>
>>>Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
>>>Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 19:49:28 +0200
>>>
>>> AFAIK the function insert-ucs-character allows only decimal numbers
>>> as argument for unicode characters.
>> Really? Did you try to say #x1234, for example?
>>
>
> Thank you, that's the solution I was looking for - is it documented
> anywhere? (I had tried 0x1234, 1234h, and some other combinations I
> could imagine - they all didn't work.)
>
> Maybe some extended help on the mule-ucs function
> "insert-ucs-character" would be useful.
This is not a feature of any specific function. It is a feature of the
Lisp reader. You can use hexadezimal, octal or binary notation
anywhere in Emacs Lisp code:
(print 4660)
(print #x1234)
(print #o11064)
(print #b1001000110100)
Oliver
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2003-10-07 17:49 hexadecimal unicode input ? Thomas Langen
2003-10-07 22:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2003-10-08 7:33 ` Thomas Langen
2003-10-08 8:58 ` Oliver Scholz [this message]
2003-10-08 10:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-08 11:35 ` Sergei Pokrovsky
[not found] ` <mailman.1314.1065609331.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-10-08 13:45 ` Thomas Langen
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2003-10-07 19:36 Thomas Langen
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