Sorry about posting this to you off-list, Lisi. On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Joel Rees <joel.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wednesday 21 August 2013 22:37:25 Bob Proulx wrote: >>> All worked perfectly as described. Accented characters are easily >>> input. But then the follow-up came back that they wanted to input the >>> bar characters āēīōū. And I don't see how to input bar characters >>> with the above. >>> >>> Because now I know that specifically they want to input the barred >>> characters āēīōū what would be possible methods to type those in that >>> I should recommend to them? >> >> I cannot even display these characters in oyur email! I get empty boxes. >> This thread would appear to apply only to US keyboards and locales. > > I believe those are the same overbar characters that are often used > for doubled vowels in Japanese in certain "Romanization" > (Latinization) methods. > > Hmm. I looked up the five vowels in question, "āēīōū", on Google and > found several sites mentioning "macron" and finally the switch clicked > in my brain. (Also found an irrelevant reference to the Habsburg > Empire. Heh.) > > Looking up "macron" on wikipedia yields information: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macron > > Odd that Japanese is not mentioned on that page.
Except, it is. Missed that, too. Maybe I'm getting senile. > But, yes, macron > vowels are used in, for example, Hepburn form Rōmaji. I was going to > mention that when this thread started, but I had the idea it might > distract from the OP's real question. > >> You obviously learn Latin differently over there too. I have a degree in >> Latin, and have taught Latin, and have never had to use these characters! >> >> Lisi > > The Wikipedia page does explain a little bit about that. > > -- > Joel Rees -- -- Joel Rees -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAAr43iOj1m1Q_g=zw=ycR=0uSC8heOxdvfjymQzaF4R=gy2...@mail.gmail.com