Re: Ascii character typeing

[Kevin Rodgers]

B. T. Raven wrote:
> Or if you don't have the loop and do functions, this kludge will work:
>
> (defun ascii ()
>   (interactive)
>   (setq i 0)
>   (while (<= i 255)
>         (when (zerop (mod i 8)) (insert "\n"))
>         (insert (format " %3d %c  " i i))
>         (setq i (1+ i))
>   )
> ) ;; maybe let i would work here instead of setq i.
>
> For some reason it doesn't produce a glyph for chars 128-159, only the
> octal code \nnn. This is really out of the ascii range but so is 160 to
> 255, for which I see the glyphs.

I doubt your buffer uses the us-ascii coding system.  `C-h v
buffer-file-coding-system' to see what it does use.

What you see displayed also depends on whether the font includes a glyph
at each code point.

--
Kevin