From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Special Characters Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 18:42:58 +0200 Message-ID: <87fv3phj3h.fsf@mbork.pl> References: <3aa57c28-0bd8-45ab-bcf9-b68029b02889@googlegroups.com> <874mk68sk8.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1439311439 13399 80.91.229.3 (11 Aug 2015 16:43:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 16:43:59 +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 18:43:48 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 1ZPCeR-00085U-H4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Aug 2015 18:43:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35258 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZPCeQ-0007ZQ-VA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Aug 2015 12:43:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41217) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZPCeE-0007ZG-AJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Aug 2015 12:43:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZPCe9-0002zz-AV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Aug 2015 12:43:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([195.110.48.8]:57990) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZPCe9-0002zb-3G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Aug 2015 12:43:29 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CD938F2009 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 2015 18:43:05 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id cHWNdkwfVebq for ; Tue, 11 Aug 2015 18:43:03 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (103-115.echostar.pl [213.156.103.115]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5AD2E8F2004 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 2015 18:43:03 +0200 (CEST) In-reply-to: <874mk68sk8.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 195.110.48.8 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:106471 Archived-At: On 2015-08-11, at 04:31, Emanuel Berg wrote: > 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. And why not just move point to that place and type `C-u C-x ='? On my keyboard, this is faster even than `M-x what-char RET'. You're welcome;-) -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Adam Mickiewicz University