From: Axel E. Retif <axel.retif@mac.com>
To: Tech Stuff <techstuff1971@yahoo.com>
Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 7:59 PM
Subject: Re: File Encoding Issue on Windows
On 03/13/2013 08:35 PM, Tech Stuff wrote:
> So, having played around a bit more I do have to make one correction.
> It does appear that now I am able to enter the extended characters
> supported by the US International keyboard, even in the mini-buffer.
Yes, I also use an US keyboard (an Apple US Keyboard, in fact, both in Linux and Mac) for Spanish text.
> I still
> have the general problem though. How do I for instance enter the
> character at codepoint 173 which is a soft hyphen (whatever that is)
> into the mini buffer?
That I don't know (copy-paste?). But I usually enter UTF-8 characters with C-X 8 RET; for example, to get an em dash,
C-X 8 RET em dash RET
or, to get an Â, as per Peter's table,
C-X 8 RET 00C2
RET.
See
http://emacswiki.org/emacs/UnicodeEncoding
Best
Axel