More specifically, you can get to these long vowels in a WGL4 font by selecting Baltic (codepage 1257) encoding since they're used in Latvian. The original poster mentioned trying to scan the Latin text, which I assume also means doing an OCR (optical character recognition) pass to convert the scanned image to editable text. If your OCR program has difficulties recognizing the long vowels, I know that Finereader (www.abbyyusa.com) does a good job with many languages and scripts including Latvian characters and their long vowels.
Gunars Lucans (properly written with LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH MACRON in both places) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Doug Ewell Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 10:05 AM To: Unicode Mailing List Cc: Joe Speroni Subject: Re: Latin long vowels oeaiu Joe Speroni wrote: > I apologize for a simple question, but after a few hours of "research" > I don't seem to be able to find the characters needed. I'm trying to > scan a Latin text that uses a bar over the vowels to indicate long > sounds. Do these characters exist in Unicode? > > ōēāīū U+014D LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH MACRON U+0113 LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH MACRON U+0101 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH MACRON U+012B LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH MACRON U+016B LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH MACRON Subtract 1 from each of these Unicode values to get the uppercase equivalent. > If so, would anyone know from where a Windows XP font containing these > five characters could be download? They're all included in Windows Glyph List 4, so most fonts should have them if they cover anything beyond Code Page 1252. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
