From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: thorne Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Enter special characters Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 04:04:15 -0700 Organization: impossible. Message-ID: References: <57k8lkF2e51bfU1@mid.individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1175859537 23785 80.91.229.12 (6 Apr 2007 11:38:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 11:38:57 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 06 13:38:29 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HZmkI-0002Cz-9X for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Apr 2007 13:36:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HZmnl-0001lO-LH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Apr 2007 07:40:21 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!storethat.news.telefonica.de!telefonica.de!news.germany.com!aioe.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: xwsRWiKvRGrGFeJyiuDlQw.user.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAMFBMVEVHQD/3+vz9+/4lPlF4 kLzv5t79/f/9+PWnTVUiJy5JV3KkoIj////Mx8YWFBP9+vzFQ3bFAAACMUlEQVQ4jb3RP2gTURwH 8HPocCmNnNAI1SJZMikOl+UibpkOHCqciiGUy/CEehKXFFGKa8ClUJd3B2fksvRC04QaJTnOUIcb JJJ2SKDGSNcr+KNXMEMQnodJte+Srj5404fv+/15TOucw/xXcMj1c8CbBl/2EbpxdwrIO8Idbis2 BRobPM9XKfgUy1xOvxP5BM/HL3FZOeKMQB4gbmmxkTR5gzeaOekkNgbEPZLSKcM0/Kf428vzS8hR /kDWWcvbvQ1ewP69xfWlyLhGZvdZ/gO3KcykKqqlcWvWqjICRc69ekl2hDnJP2r0QX4VjbtyCPHk A8zMdqTKCEY1Wu0s4hbrQsLg6/FENNc5UZTTAR20oJeKoqgmC902cs5M3v65Z5mm2CgmulGkoH/Q cl4wltVJN0IRP6Cc3dVuT7X7/frMr4klVsyE1RDWvwVhBSeTSVEAWw7AMS6K2ATYukYD+ghFERiA 6oCCNmEhLgLW4YJHgfMY4LWoY4AjQsOxDsWkvg4A3WnAuDpcpGFBB8MEH+waDUMtXcF+Da2WpmHe lr5iF7uaRSdapNdnsAug9pbpxIAM1bDfk0boAVso87yAwdXfogD422V9YKsTa39isnrZxdtXg/C5 gI/KLvNmIrEShh/lQ3Yyscfq298B9hUaHPQwfHh/OFuY8wJdyQeVQ/LUtTZt+gedQaFRbl4B1TSb NHhaKfw+mq6EmMB/cKUQc0++6RHCBbpKWbW/ZSlwEAnAb3NDHSx48elnAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC Cancel-Lock: sha1:f/WR+7jrZ9HU67ghL8qIR3sa00s= User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.51 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:146850 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:42454 Archived-At: The Chief Instigator writes: > thorne writes: >>Is this octal ASCII--or what? I would like to google for a list of >>the characters and their octal numbers, but i don't know what the >>encoding is. Or is this a big can of worms i should forget about? > > It takes octal arguments - to insert a German "ss", just use C-q > 0-3-3-7-return - six keystrokes, and you should get a ß inserted at the point. > (You won't get anything printable for 0000 octal through 0037 - 0040 is > a space, though - and from 0200 through 0237 (128 through 159 in decimal).) To what do these numbers corelate, and is there a list somewhere with which i can look up specific ones? -- þ theron tlåx þ (compose-mail (concat "thorne@" (rot13 "gvzoeny") ".net"))