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 does port.

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.

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.

On Mar 9, 2008, at 2:02 PM, Gerd Knops wrote:

On Mar 9, 2008, at 10:25 AM, Steven Harms wrote:

I am currently taking an ancient Latin class.

Latin, in modern text, makes use of macron ( bars over letters ).

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."

I guess you learn something new every day!

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.

Gerd

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