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Re: ASCII codes in Emacs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (anthony)
Thu Nov 7 02:53:37 1996
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 07:46:02 +0000 (GMT)
From: anthony <ac@achc.demon.co.uk>
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On 6 Nov 1996, Alan Shutko wrote:
> >>>>> "A" =3D=3D anthony <ac@achc.demon.co.uk> writes:
>=20
> A> Is there any way to produce the upper range of ASCII codes in Emacs
> A> (text version, not X)? Specifically I want to be able to print the
> A> pound sign (ASCII 156); I can do this in joe but not in Emacs so
> A> far as I can see.
>=20
> Do you mean, type them in?
>=20
> =A3
>=20
> Actually, the pound sign isn't in ASCII, but it's octal 243 (163
> decimal) in ISO 8859 Latin-1. To enter it in Emacs, enter `C-q 243'.
> If you enter C-q and a number in octal, Emacs will insert that
> character.
>=20
> --
It's 156 in ASCII for DOS - I thought it was the same in Unix. Anyway,=20
I've tried `C-q 243' and all that happens for me is that I get /243 on=20
screen! What am I doing wrong?
Anthony
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Anthony Campbell * Using Linux * London UK
email: anthony@achc.demon.co.uk or acampbell@cix.compulink.co.uk
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