On Saturday 19 November 2005 21:09, Nusret BALCI wrote:
> Christian,
> the key combination you mentioned doesn't work (for me
> not a big deal, though: there are several other
> convenient ways to enter scharfes s), but I wonder why
> you thought this would do: What's the magic behind
> Alt-2-2-3?
223 is the code of ß in a given encoding. In this context the encoding is
used by microsoft, it is almost equal to latin-1 but not quite (as usual :-),
in this range of values is the same as latin-1.
Just to confirm (calling from ipython):
In [13]: print chr(223).decode('latin-1')
ß
> Thank you.
> Nusret
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José Abílio
