On Apr 26, 1:01 pm, stosss <[email protected]> wrote: > Me: I tried this for a curly quote. I placed the cursor over one and > pressed ga it showed me 8220 as the ASCII code. I typed: > > Me: / then I pressed CTRL-V and got --visual block-- > Me: so I tried: > Me: / then I pressed CTRL-v and got ^ then I typed 8220 then I pressed > ENTER and got a capital Y with two dots over it and a zero to the > right. >
If you're getting 8220 as the ASCII code, then the character is not representable in ASCII. ASCII only uses 1-byte codes. A single byte can only represent values from 0 to 255. Your "Y with two dots over it" is the ASCII character for the value, 822. I did a quick Google search for "curly quote ASCII code" and found this page: http://www.tedmontgomery.com/tutorial/HTMLchrc.html >From there (and verified from copy-pasting into Vim, and doing ga on the character) I get an ASCII value of 147 for the left curly double quote. Typing /^V147 places the curly quote into the search as expected. Looking at :help c_CTRL-V, it sounds like this entry method only works for single-byte characters. I do not ever use multibyte charaters in my work, so I do not have any idea how to enter them. -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php Subscription settings: http://groups.google.com/group/vim_use/subscribe?hl=en
