Typing vowels with macrons

[Kent Frazier]

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 09:30:25 +0100, Martijn van de Streek
<martijn at foodfight.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Kent Frazier wrote:
> 
> > > /usr/share/keymaps/include/compose.latin.inc.gz
> >
> > If anyone out there happens to know how to use compose to insert
> > macrons, please do tell.
> 
> The file you should be looking at is
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose (you should also switch to
> a UTF-8 locale, otherwise the macrons won't be in your character set,
> and the UTF-8 compose map will not be used)
> 
> Martijn
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I actually happened across that file somehow as well.  I am running
Hoary and using a UTF-8 locale, so that is not an issue.  The file had
a listing for the various macrons, but the options it listed were:

<dead_macron> <A>	: "Ā" U0100 # LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH MACRON
<Multi_key> <macron> <A>	: "Ā" U0100 # LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH MACRON
<Multi_key> <underscore> <A>	: "Ā" U0100 # LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH MACRON

I do not have a dead_macron key or a macron key on my (standard U.S.
104-key) keyboard as far as I know.  When I use <Multi_key>
<underscore> <A>, I get ª instead of Ā.

Am I doing something wrong?

Kent