Re: Entering UTF-8 Characters

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 20.12.2005 um 01:11 schrieb Cameron Desautels:

> My ultimate goal is to type "smart quotes" into UTF-8 files.

Three choices:

        • octal a in \20030 ... \20037 = ‘ ’ ‚ ‛ “ ” „ ‟ (end with non-digit)
        • ucs input method C-x RET C-\ RET u201c
	• bind a key to insert these by copying from my eMail or utf8.txt in 
kermit distribution

I think the first two methods won't work in GNU Emacs 21.4. This Emacs 
too gives on C-u C-x = not the correct answers. Whether the last method 
works I can't tell, I prefer GNU Emacs 23 because is has Unicode 
support that you can actually use (at almost 100% of the time, printing 
only works via htmlizing the buffer and then printing out of an 
Internet browser). Here is GNU Emacs 23's description of a "smart" 
quote:

        character: „ (020036, 8222, 0x201e)
preferred charset: [iso-8859-13] (ISO/IEC 8859/13)
       code point: [0xA5]
           syntax: .    which means: punctuation
      buffer code: 0xE2 0x80 0x9E
        file code: 0xE2 0x80 0x9E (encoded by coding system utf-8)
          display: by this font (glyph code)
     
-B&H-LucidaTypewriter-Medium-R-Normal-Sans-10-100-75-75-M-60-ISO10646-1 
(0x201E)

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Greetings

  Pete

"A smart quote proves nothing."
     --Pete (19??-20??)