Matthew Ozor on 11 Jun 2004 17:19:02 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Re: VIM and ASCII


Your ansewer was fine but my question was how to enter
an extended ascii symbol in VIM. The character set is
unimportant to the question. I realize that there are
different symbols for different standards. Entering
them in VIM is the same no matter what term you are
using or . Someone did post CTRL-V and I must have
overlooked it with the 8 paragpraph on ISO and ANSI
theory that surrounded it. 

My question should have sounded like this. 

What is the correct key combination for entering
extended ascii characters in VIM. 

System:
Mandrake 9.1
Linux kernel 2.4.21
TERM=xterm
SHELL=/bin/bash
VIM 6.1
keyboard = 107 key Dell
monitor = Viewsonic P95f+ 19"

I thought using the old ms-dos way of entering them as
an example would shine light on the question and
result in a ansewer. Man now im "grumpy" ... who talks
like that... 


--- Jeff Weisberg <jaw+plug@tcp4me.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> mtozor@yahoo.com wrote:
> [...]
> | Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> | 
> | Your going to tell me that %G�%@ is not an
> extended ascii
>                              ^^
> | symbol - it was the symbol I orginal asked about
> in my
> | first post on this topic.
> 
> 
> I don't think you'll care to hear my answer, so you
> should hit
> delete now, but for the other people on the list
> that do care,
> and would like to learn:
> 
> Your email headers indicate "US-ASCII". The
> indicated character
> has a value of 0xEC (239). Being outside the range
> of 0-127
> it is not a valid ASCII character.
> 
> What is it? How do we display it? What does it look
> like?
> 
> There are a *large* number of character sets which
> extend
> ASCII, and have characters in the range 128-255. But
> they
> are all different. If we don't know which of the
> many
> "extended ascii" character sets you mean, we have no
> way
> to know how to interpret the above character.
> 
> perhaps an example:
> 
> the above character (0xEC) has the following
> interpretation in each of these "extended ascii"
> character sets:
> 
>     iso-8859-1    LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH GRAVE
>     iso-8859-2    LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH CARON
>     iso-8859-3    LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH GRAVE
>     iso-8859-4    LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH DOT
> ABOVE
>     iso-8859-5    CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SOFT SIGN
>     iso-8859-6    ARABIC DAMMATAN
>     iso-8859-7    GREEK SMALL LETTER MU
>     iso-8859-8    HEBREW LETTER LAMED
>     iso-8859-9    LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH GRAVE
>     iso-8859-10   LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH DOT
> ABOVE
>     iso-8859-11   THAI CHARACTER THANTHAKHAT
>     iso-8859-13   LATIN SMALL LETTER G WITH CEDILLA
>     iso-8859-14   LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH GRAVE
>     iso-8859-15   LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH GRAVE
>     iso-8859-16   LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH GRAVE
>     KOI8-R        CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER EL
>     CP437         INFINITY
>     CP850         LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH ACUTE
>     CP855         CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER VE
>     CP866	  CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SOFT SIGN
>     [...]
> 
> these are all equally valid interpretations of your
> ambiguous "extended ascii" above.
> 
> different people on the PLUG list will see your
> "extended ascii" character in different of the above
> ways.
> and none are wrong.
> 
> (actually, your message should be rejected as
> corrupt, but
> that's a different thread altogether)
> 
> 
> 	--jeff
> 
>
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