Re: GNU Emacs 22.0.50 fails to find ä in different ISO Latin encodings

[Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@web.de>]

Am 22.09.2006 um 12:31 schrieb Miles Bader:

> Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@web.de> writes:
>> 	C-s C-q 245 in ISO 8859-16 does not find ``„´´ (U+201E) – mini-
>> buffer tells me that ``¥´´ (\245 in ISO 8859-1) cannot be found.
>
> That's because the numeric code following C-q is _not_ a unicode code
> point, it's an Emacs character code.  In Emacs 22 those two things are
> very different (in Emacs 23, I guess they are the same, as Emacs 23  
> uses
> unicode for its internal codes).
>
> You can see the "Emacs character code" of a character by hitting C-x =
> on top of that character in a buffer.
>
> E.g., C-x = says that ``„´´ has Emacs code 1234576, and indeed  
> entering
> `C-s C-q 1234576 RET' successfully searches for „ !  Similarly, the
> Emacs code for ¥ is 4245, and that also works correctly following C-q.

This might be the correct way in a GNU Emacs way, but not in the way  
an Emacs user would use it. Or can I type C-q 4245 RET to input ¥ in  
some file? (Well, it actually works ...) Having to use other numbers  
than the well-known three digits wide ones is not the usual user  
experience. The so-called character code is a known quantity and  
supported by some operating systems. (There is also the option to  
change the 'base' of the character code notation from 8 to 16, to be  
able to input the Unicode slot number. This should work also IMO.)

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