Re: Typing in bar characters (accented characters?)

[Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com>]

Sorry about posting this to you off-list, Lisi.

On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@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.
>
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> Joel Rees



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