From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Special Characters Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 04:31:03 +0200 Message-ID: <874mk68sk8.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se> References: <3aa57c28-0bd8-45ab-bcf9-b68029b02889@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1439260396 3755 80.91.229.3 (11 Aug 2015 02:33:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 02:33:16 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 11 04:33:07 2015 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 1ZOzNC-0005Vl-Iz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Aug 2015 04:33:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60808 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZOzNB-0003ns-MZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Aug 2015 22:33:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34079) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZOzMz-0003nb-Lc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Aug 2015 22:32:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZOzMv-0001pf-GM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Aug 2015 22:32:53 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:51299) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZOzMv-0001pW-9w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Aug 2015 22:32:49 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZOzMq-0005Nz-OH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Aug 2015 04:32:44 +0200 Original-Received: from nl106-137-246.student.uu.se ([130.243.137.246]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 2015 04:32:44 +0200 Original-Received: from embe8573 by nl106-137-246.student.uu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 2015 04:32:44 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nl106-137-246.student.uu.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:w8nnd6G+8CKJLDTdao/splOachI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:106449 Archived-At: Ian Baylis writes: > I have a file that has special characters in it. > When I open the file in Emacs an ' is represented > like: \200\231 or just \231 > > What type of characters are they and is there a list > of those characters I can use as reference for > the future. Move point, then use `describe-char' - I have (defalias 'what-char 'describe-char) (OT: should that be sharp-quoted as well?) I think "what-char" is neat as it is faster to type and consistent with `what-face' etc. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573