Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen.

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> When I hold the <alt> key and type "241" on the numeric keypad, the "ñ"
> appears correctly on the screen.

So assuming you did that in a "normal" buffer, that means that A-241 is
properly interpreted by self-insert-command and you get the char "ñ"
inserted in your buffer (and then properly displayed as well).

> My program does (insert pr-line), where
> pr-line is a string containing the ñ - this puts \361 up.

How does pr-line contain this char?  I.e. how do you construct it?


        Stefan