Re: utf8 char display in buffer

[B. T. Raven]

B. T. Raven wrote:
> ken wrote:
> > Hey, group,
> >
> > I already use a few utf8 characters in emacs (and in web pages), but
> > recently needed to use a couple more.  One is an 'a' with a horizontal
> > line above it, the other an 'i' with a vertical line above it.  How do I
> > input these into a buffer?
> >
> >
> > tia,
> > ken

Oops, I see you said i with VERTICAL line. What is that character?
Any of these?  í ï î ì If so substitute for i with macron below.

> C-x ret C-\ latin-4-postfix
>
> then a,e,i,o,u followed by hyphen generate macroned vowels
>
> If you don't want all these then you could just put something like this 
> in .emacs
>
> (global-set-key "\C-ca" (lambda () (interactive) (insert  ?ā )))
> (global-set-key "\C-ci" (lambda () (interactive) (insert  ?ī )))
>
> assuming you have these C-c combos free.
>
> Ed