On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 13:27 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > 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.
PS: If you want to roll on the floor and laugh, the academic years were called "Sexta, Quinta, Quarta, Untertertia, Obertertia, Untersekunda, Obersekunda, Unterprima, Oberprima" this is not only über-pretentious, but completely ridiculous. And until today this bullshit isn't forbidden in Germany, but does cause a good reputation for those who visited such ridiculous schools. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1377777289.3536.28.camel@archlinux
