Re: Maybe not as simple as I thought

[Ihor Radchenko]

David Boss <dave.boss@yahoo.com> writes:

> If, asI have understood, there is a single zero-width-space character I 
> canuse to stop Org mode interpretation, don't tell me how to insert it;tell 
> me its 8-bit value, in binary or hex. If I have to be in16-bit-character mode 
> to use it, tell me that.
>
> If it's really 2 characters, but works OK in 8-bit mode, tell methat, too, 
> and tell me the 16 bits.

zero-width space is a UTF character.

> Next, if that character appears in a file, exactly what effectdoes it have on 
> the Org mode interpreter? Does it

> suppress the Org-mode-syntactical effect of the precedingcharacter? Or,
>
> suppress the syntactical effect of the following character?Or,
>
> only work if it appears both before and after its intended victim?

It has the same effect as inserting an actual space in place of the
zero-width space, except that zero-width space does not create an actual
space between the characters.

> Absolutely all I want to be able to do, is to find stars, slashes,and 
> underlines, in incoming text, and add something to each to keepit from being 
> interpreted by the Org mode interpreter. Using lispcode, not my fingers.
>
> I don't need to be told anything else.

Another alternative is using entities:
* = \star
/ = \slash
_ = \under

Entities will never be interpreted as markup boundaries.

Best,
Ihor