You can enter the ASCII characters with the decimal numbers from 1 up to 26 by entering ^P, followed by a character key from A to Z. To get ASCII 1, enter ^PA, for ASCII 2 enter ^PB and so on.
There are a few exeptions:
Besides ^PZ (Wordstar ^P@), the corresponding character images of the IBM Codepage are shown, e.g. ^PB is a face, ^PS a double exclamation mark.
If WSedit was loaded with a Wordstar file, a new item "emphasize" appears in the menu bar. With this menu, you can insert toggles and special chars with the mouse. Marking a block before using this command let you insert toggle chars in pairs.
Only the editor itself accepts ^P commands. If you want to enter these ASCII charcters into an edit field of the search dialog or the search/replace dialog, you can choose one of the following possibilities:
Since WSedit 1.00, Underlined, Bold and Italic can be shown
Underlined, Bold and Italic instead of colored text. But some fonts have problems
in showing these attributes. If your favourite font does not show these attributes
or shows it in an horrible manner, you can turn back to colored normal font on
the Settings notebook, Highlight page at the end of the left checkbox list.