[XeTeX] Newbie Question: Accessing Glyph

Alexander Schultheiß aschulth at googlemail.com
Mon Sep 13 18:37:30 CEST 2010


> I can't speak for others, but if I need a rare character, I fire up
> BabelMap, look for the thing by name, and then insert it. Until a second
> ago, for instance, I had no idea what the unicode value for a lower case o
> with macron (ō) was (turns out it's U+014D), and I won't have to remember it
> either because every time I need it I'll just insert it into my text, to
> ensure it stays readable, even as TeX source.

This might work for transcribing Japanese but that you could do with a
type1 font I guess. Other humanities use weird combination which are
not encoded in Unicode. It is never wrong to know how it's done on a
"low level", I guess.



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