Re: Ascii character typeing

[Pascal Bourguignon]

"B. T. Raven" <ecinmn@alcisp.com> writes:

> "Brian Elmegaard" <brian@rkspeed-rugby.dk> wrote in message
> uejwh2tsy.fsf@rkspeed-rugby.dk">news:uejwh2tsy.fsf@rkspeed-rugby.dk...
>> Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> writes:
>>
>> > Then you can type M-x ascii RET
>> > in any buffer to see the ISO-8859-1 characters.
>>
>> Thanks for the hint. Do I get something better with quoted characters
>> than with enabling input methods? These look as quite strong tools to
>> me.
>
> 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.

This is wrong.  The ASCII standard only defines codes between 0 and 127.


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