Ah, Thanks for the reply, I pretty much stumbled upon the same solution before I saw your email. :)
picFanen Ahua Random quote: Lucy: Dance, dance, dance. That is all you ever do. Can't you be serious for once? Snoopy: She is right! I think I had better think of the more important things in life! (pause) Tomorrow!! On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 13:52 +0000, Simos wrote: > 2009/2/12 Fanen Ahua <[email protected]>: > > If I wanted to insert these characters into a gnome editor application, say > > in an evolution email, you know how I can do that? I have the "compose" key > > enabled, and can insert characters like ô without trouble. > > The Compose key will not help you here because it does not have the > full range of Latin characters with macro below (has nine only). > > You can use Ctrl+Shift+u as in > 1. Type, for example, G > 2. Press Ctrl+Shift+u > 3. Type 332, then press Spacebar > 4. You get G̲ > > You can also edit your current keyboard layout so that it outputs > 0x0331/0x0332. > Currently, only us(olpc) has that character, and is under AltGr+{. > > Between 0x0331 and 0x0332, I think it's better for your work to choose > the latter because it is flatter. > > with 0x0331 G̱ṈO̱M̱E̱ > with 0x0332 G̲N̲O̲M̲E̲ > > To be able to view these characters, you need to view the text in a > window that has advanced text layout (for example, a GTK+ application > that uses Pango). You should expect that for some characters, the > macron will not be positioned perfectly under the letter. > > Regardless of the above, I think that in your case, you should also > consider typing those e-mails as HTML e-mails, and using Underline for > the specific characters. To use 0x030[12] would be more of a hack, or > test-casing the text layout engines of your e-mail recipients. > > Simos > > > On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 23:26 -0500, Thomas Thurman wrote: > > > >> U+0331 COMBINING MACRO BELOW: fe̱ed fo̱od > >> U+0332 COMBINING LOW LINE: fe̲ed fo̲od > > > > Receiving my own message back again, Thunderbird had problems with > > U+0332 and U+0332 also doesn't work in "view source" for the web page, > > whereas U+0331 works fine for both. So I think U+0331 should be what > > you want, assuming it looks like the character you're looking for. > > > > peace > > > > Thomas
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