Re: utf8 char display in buffer

["B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net>]

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