Combining diacriticals

[John Gersh]

This works for me:

Type in the x, then insert the bar from the character palette.

That was easy to say, but showing and using the character palette is
incredibly obscure. Go the Input Menu tab of International preferences in
System Preferences and check "Character Palette." Make sure "Show input menu
in menu bar" is also checked. A little national flag will show up in the
menubar. Pick "Show Character Palette" in its menu. Pick "Code Tables" in
the View pull-down at the top of the palette to get to Combining Diacritical
Marks. Select the bar and click Insert.

- John Gersh


On 10/18/07 1:19 PM, "Nicholas Bastin" <nbastin at opnet.com> wrote:

> I'm unclear as to whether this is a font problem, or an OmniGraffle
> problem.
> 
> I'm trying to display the character xbar, which is unicode 0305 0078
> (a bar diacritic with an x).  However, Omnigraffle just makes these
> two different characters.  0305 is definitely defined by the Unicode
> Standard as a "Combining Diacritical Mark" and so it should not
> render as its' own character.  All fonts I've tried that support the
> 0300-036F code points have functioned in this way.  Is there any non-
> hackish way to display these characters?
> 
> --
> Nick
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