Re: GNU Emacs 22.0.50 fails to find ä in different ISO Latin encodings

[Miles Bader]

Peter Dyballa <address@hidden> writes:
> Anyway, what also does not work is: C-s C-q <a non-ASCII, i.e.  greater
> 177 octal code>. For those with really small keyboards this  is the
> (almost?) only chance to find some of the x times 64 K  characters in
> Unicode ...

Eh?  It works for me:

E.g., the Emacs 22 character code of "字" is octal 0156772.

If I enter C-s C-q 0156772 (followed by some other char to terminate the
octal code), it correctly adds that character to the search string (and
finds in the buffer).

-Miles

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