Re: \200 character

[A.Politz]

On Aug 6, 8:13 pm, TheFlyingDutchman <zzbba...@aol.com> wrote:
> In trying to save the (describe-function xxxx) output to a file, I
> found that several commands have non-ASCII characters in their help
> text - html-mode, isearch-mode, sgml-mode, turkish-case-conversion-
> enable and xml-mode.
>
> For the xxx-mode commands, the non-ascii characters are displayed as :
>
> 1)  \200   (decimal value of 128)
>  2) lowercase y with two dots over it.  (decimal value  2303)
>
> e.g. for xml-mode you have a line with:
>
> \200 .. { y with two dots over it } sgml-maybe-name-self
>
> I am wondering what is the key combination that they are showing? That
> is, how would I input \200 or y-with-two-dots from a standard
> keyboard? Also, why are two dots shown separating the two characters?

The dots indicate a range of keys to which the function is bound.

You can input any character by using its octal value with C-q.
C-q 200 RET
Read the function description of this command for more info.

You can find out about a characters code with
C-x =
.

-ap