Re: Enter special characters

[The Chief Instigator]

thorne <thinly-disguised@spam-sucks.foo> writes:

>Hans-Christoph Wirth <hcw@despammed.com> writes:

>> Paul Batt <paul.batt@gmx.net> wrote:
>>>  Is there anything like the Alt-<ISO-Nr.> function in Windows?

>> C-q takes octal arguments.

>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).)

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