On Sun, 2 Jul 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 10:00:28PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote:
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> > [And how do you type accented characters on an English keyboard?]
> 
>     $ man iso_8859_1:
> 
> Y?? c?n d? it t???.
> 
> Just my 4???.
> 
> ...to include in an editor, say vi and derivatives, enter ^V+<number>,
> eg:  ^V242, for small letter o accent grave.

In emacs you would enter control q then the octal number of that 
character. There are also lisp functions in emacs that allow you use
key combinations that include the unaccented character - to add 
the accent.  


 
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