From: Jason Rumney <jasonrumney@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Character sets and encodings confusion
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:28:34 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a22a66ec-a482-44da-adb5-86287b0b983b@m77g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.6033.1200065717.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
On 11 Jan, 14:26, "Otto Maddox" <ottomad...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> When I type `C-u C-x =' on the character `£', ...
> Why is the code point #x23? Should it not be #xA3 in Latin Alphabet 1?
The clue is in the following:
> charset: latin-iso8859-1
> (Right-Hand Part of Latin Alphabet 1 (ISO/IEC 8859-1): ISO-IR-100.)
Note that the latin-iso8859-1 charset only includes the Right-Hand
part (0x80-0xff).
> Because when you click on the #x23, the character list you get shows
> the code point as being #xA3, which is confusing.
It is confusing, but the table displayed is listed as the *coded*
charset, so it has the +0x80 transformation applied.
> Also, what are the first three numbers in parenthesis on the
> `character:' line?
They are the code-point in the internal encoding (emacs-mule in the
current version) in decimal, octal and hexadecimal.
next parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-11 16:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.6033.1200065717.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-01-11 16:28 ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2008-01-11 14:26 Character sets and encodings confusion Otto Maddox
2008-01-11 16:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=a22a66ec-a482-44da-adb5-86287b0b983b@m77g2000hsc.googlegroups.com \
--to=jasonrumney@gmail.com \
--cc=help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.