Re: Enter special characters

[The Chief Instigator <patrick@eris.io.com>]

thorne <thinly-disguised@spam-sucks.foo> writes:

>The Chief Instigator <patrick@eris.io.com> writes:

>> thorne <thinly-disguised@spam-sucks.foo> 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?

The octal numbers are for entering special characters in the ISO-8859-1
character set, which is an 8-bit code.  Other character sets may not follow
that rule.

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