On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 12:09 +0100, Lisi Reisz 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.
> 
> 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!

They're displayed here, $ echo $LANG en_US.UTF-8, German keyboard.

And as already mentioned before, I learned Latin and never heard of
those letters for the Latin language before too. I never was good in
Latin, but I'm from a hardcore "Gymnasium" -> [an academic high school,
Br. grammar school, in German-speaking countries], we learned ancient
Greek and Latin as part of our native language German, not only idiots
like me who had Latin as a school subject. AFAIK the "Gymnasium" I
visited (and failed ;), was and perhaps still is the most hardest
"Gymnasium" in Germany. If the bars were common for Latin, I would be
aware of this, even while I failed when learning at this hardcore
school.



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