Re: \200 character

[TheFlyingDutchman <zzbbaadd@aol.com>]

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!