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  1. Newsgroups: comp.emacs
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!europa.asd.contel.com!darwin.sura.net!mips!decwrl!pa.dec.com!chene.cxo.dec.com!mrr
  3. From: mrr@chene.cxo.dec.com (Mark Richard Rance)
  4. Subject: special ASCII characters and xemacs
  5. Message-ID: <1992Jul23.001617.21956@PA.dec.com>
  6. Sender: news@PA.dec.com (News)
  7. Reply-To: mrr@chene.cxo.dec.com (Mark Richard Rance)
  8. Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
  9. Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 00:16:17 GMT
  10. Lines: 14
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  12. is there some way to insert special ASCII characters using emacs?
  13.  
  14. i need to figure out how to type characters like:
  15.  
  16. ÷ ⁿ Σ, ▀  et.al. and emacs doesn't seem to know what to do with the compose
  17. character sequences understood by many other editors.  is there some way to 
  18. insert the specific ASCII code for those characters??
  19.   
  20. additionally, files that already have those characters (130- 255) are not 
  21. accurately presented on the screen when viewed thru xemacs.
  22.  
  23. mail replies graciously accepted
  24.  
  25. mark
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