On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Ben Fritz <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
I have an ASCII table generated from an HTML file the curly quotes show up as 147 and 148, when I type / and then press CTRL and then v I get only this ^ if I type 147 ENTER I get this <93> I still don't understand how this works or what I am doing wrong. -- If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy. - Thomas Jefferson -- 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
