Re: [h-e-w] insert sterling character

[Jason Rumney]

Dr Francis J. Wright wrote:

> Any of the following should insert a pound sterling character (i.e. they
> work for me):
>
> (insert ?£)
>
> (insert 2211)
>
> (insert ?\x8a3)
>
> The latter two have the advantage of not needing a pound sterling key!
>  
They also have the disadvantage of being dependant on the internal 
character representation, which will change from emacs-mule to utf-8 in 
future (probably 22.1)

Another alternative is:

(insert (make-char 'latin-iso8859-1 163))