> On Apr 26, 1:01 pm, stosss <sto...@gmail.com> 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.
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