Macron?

[ffutures]

I'm doing OCR on an 1890s Judo article which mentions several Japanese names. Some of them have small o's and u's with a macron accent ( ¯ ) above them. Does anyone know how to produce these characters in HTML? Damned if I can figure it out, and the closest I've been able to find on any site that lists these characters is a macron on its own ¯ and ò which isn't right.

I could probably find these in a character set and paste them in, and hope that it's the same in all character sets, but if possible I'd like to do it properly.

Comments

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Hm, even this list has only the standalone macrone and that's pretty much the reference.

[ggreig]

Assuming ō and ū are correct, then this page looks helpful:

http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/latin1.html

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Thanks, that's exactly what I want.

[pauldrye.livejournal.com]

Most browsers these days (Explorer, Mozilla/Thunderbird, and Netscape for certain) will let you stick the unicode number of the character you want after the usual "ampersand-number sign" code, i.e., you are not restricted to the ISO 8859-1 numbers.

I don't believe it's a proper standard to do so, but to the best of my knowledge it's as close as you're going to get to a universal way of marking up macroned vowels.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Thanks, that seems to be working.