[ale] Odd ascii characters in vi?

Michael H. Warfield mhw at wittsend.com
Fri Apr 12 18:22:14 EDT 2002


On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 11:16:20PM -0400, Allan Neal wrote:
> Does anyone know of a way to enter odd ascii characters into a text document
> using vi (vim)?

> examples (0xB7, 0x95)

	Control V (^V) followed by the DECIMAL character code...

	^V183 (·) and ^V149 (•) for the examples above

> E
> Allan Neal
> allankneal at myrealbox.com
> "Artificial Intelligence is no match for human stupidity"

	Mike
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