<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Gerd,<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>In my experience that glyph ( chosen by opt-a + vowel ) when inserted in HTML does not port - when viewed in a web page it tends to come up as a '?' or something similar whereas the unicode value <i>does</i> port.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>So, in theory i could extend the "Convert HTML to Entities" code and augment it to support macron-ized vowels. Eve Now, I may merely be reflecting my ignorance of UTF-8 and i18n in general, but without the text being easily ported, I simply don't feel like I'm building data artifacts that can be re-used flexibly - and I need that. </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I feel like my solution is *good* and opening it up for others to benefit from would be good too, I just wonder if there's a better way, or a larger geist that would be well served by by my trying to take a larger perspective.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Steven</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br><div><div>On Mar 9, 2008, at 2:02 PM, Gerd Knops wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br>On Mar 9, 2008, at 10:25 AM, Steven Harms wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">I am currently taking an ancient Latin class.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Latin, in modern text, makes use of macron ( bars over letters ).<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote>Hmmm... I had 6 years of Latin (in Germany) and have never seen such a thing. So curiosity had me look it up on Wikipedia. Quote: "Textbooks and dictionaries indicate the quantity of vowels by putting a macron or horizontal bar above the long vowel, but this is not generally done in regular texts."<br><br>I guess you learn something new every day!<br><br>BTW if you switch your keyboard to "U.S. Extended", You can get a macron over a character by pressing Opt-a followed by the character.<br><br>Gerd<br><br><br>______________________________________________________________________<br>For new threads USE THIS: <a href="mailto:textmate@lists.macromates.com">textmate@lists.macromates.com</a><br>(threading gets destroyed and the universe will collapse if you don't)<br><a href="http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate">http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate</a><br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>