From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joost Kremers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Enter special characters Date: 6 Apr 2007 11:15:25 GMT Message-ID: References: <57k8lkF2e51bfU1@mid.individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1175859968 25196 80.91.229.12 (6 Apr 2007 11:46:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 11:46:08 +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 13:45:36 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 1HZmkj-0002H4-Ou for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Apr 2007 13:37:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HZmoD-0002Dy-2V for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Apr 2007 07:40:49 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Trace: individual.net yjfyzZuvIc8Bcl7wu7WrIwffKBwFvBME28fpof/NwPkGpRKS4P Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Editor: Emacs of course! User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (Linux) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:146851 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:42455 Archived-At: thorne wrote: > The Chief Instigator writes: >> 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? it may be more practical to use an input method that provides what you need. see the function toggle-input-method and the variable default-input-method. for example, i use the input method latin-9-prefix, which gives me several dead keys. then "a gives ä, ~o gives õ, etc. "s gives ß, ~< gives «, /a gives å. you may find an input method that suits your needs. -- Joost Kremers joostkremers@yahoo.com Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht EN:SiS(9)