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Re: Enter special characters
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The Chief Instigator |
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Re: Enter special characters |
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05 Apr 2007 23:32:33 -0500 |
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thorne <thinly-disguised@spam-sucks.foo> writes:
>Hans-Christoph Wirth <hcw@despammed.com> writes:
>> Paul Batt <paul.batt@gmx.net> wrote:
>>> Is there anything like the Alt-<ISO-Nr.> function in Windows?
>> C-q takes octal arguments.
>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).)
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