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You can access any character of the current font using its number with
the \symbol command. For example, the visible space character
used in the \verb* command has the code decimal 32, so it can be
typed as \symbol{32}.
You can also specify numbers in octal (base 8) by using a '
prefix, or hexadecimal (base 16) with a " prefix, so the previous
example could also be written as \symbol{'40} or
\symbol{"20}.