From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: those funny non-ASCII characters Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 09:36:20 +0300 Message-ID: <83vcjkwyvv.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1337927788 12170 80.91.229.3 (25 May 2012 06:36:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 06:36:28 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 25 08:36:28 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SXo8N-0005mQ-P7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 May 2012 08:36:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39957 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SXo8N-000761-Be for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 May 2012 02:36:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:32889) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SXo8C-0006nW-O6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 May 2012 02:36:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SXo88-0007kT-24 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 May 2012 02:36:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:59495) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SXo87-0007hx-Qe for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 May 2012 02:36:07 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0M4K00A00FJ9GO00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 May 2012 09:36:06 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.210.75]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0M4K009VFFO4XRB0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 May 2012 09:36:04 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:84965 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 18:49:29 -0500 > From: "Buchs, Kevin" > > I am very naive in regard to coding, so please excuse my ignorance. I > would guess these are 16-bit (Unicode16) characters. Can someone > enlighten me as to how I can determine what these characters are (after > pasted into a buffer) With cursor on that character, type "C-u C-x =", and Emacs will show everything it knows about that character, including its canonical name.