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 04:33:22 +0200 Message-ID: <87zj1y7dvx.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se> 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 1439260530 5311 80.91.229.3 (11 Aug 2015 02:35:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 02:35:30 +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 04:35:24 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 1ZOzPP-0006ED-I5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Aug 2015 04:35:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60819 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZOzPO-00058a-Vt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Aug 2015 22:35:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34945) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZOzPD-00057K-Ay for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Aug 2015 22:35:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZOzP6-0002i2-Sk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Aug 2015 22:35:11 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:51362) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZOzP6-0002ga-MW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Aug 2015 22:35:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZOzP5-000692-P7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Aug 2015 04:35:03 +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 04:35:03 +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 04:35:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 30 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:UbhrZeOAu5NeHpYm8u/UmrJre18= 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:106450 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > 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. (defun what-face (pos) (interactive "d") (let*((point (point)) (face (or (get-char-property point 'face) (get-char-property point 'read-cf-name) ))) (if face (message " Face: %s" face) (message " No face at %d." pos) ))) -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573