Re: inputting characters by hexadigit

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

James Cloos writes:
 > >>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull <address@hidden> writes:
 > 
 > Stephen> <sigh /> ":-" C-q "376" RET (:-þ) to you.  (It means "d'oh, I
 > Stephen> get it now" in Japanese, I don't use it in English.)
 > 
 > OK, no one but some (fellow) old-timers.  :^)
 > 
 > But that doesn't work for me.  I get \376 rather than þ.

Interesting.  I haven't tried with a recent (GNU) Emacs.