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At 01:29 03/01/2004, you wrote:

>I would like to know how I may use extended ascii characters in context, 
>for example character number 167.
>Thanks in advance

normally this is handled by font encoding and input regimes

if you want to directly access a char, how about:

\definesymbol[whatever][\getglyph{...}{167}]

see symb-*.tex for examples

Hans