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Re: Enter special characters


From: thorne
Subject: Re: Enter special characters
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 04:04:15 -0700
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.51 (gnu/linux)

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?

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