Alain noted:
> The macron sign should in fact have been called the overline character (as
> in Latin 1 it is not, generally speaking, used as a diacritic
Please don't muddy the semantics of this character. It is
clearly identified as:
U+00AF MACRON
in 8859-1 and in 10646.
It contrasts with:
U+203E OVERLINE
U+0305 COMBINING OVERLINE
in 10646.
If people overload 0xAF MACRON in 8859-1 implementations to do box
drawing or overlining, that is up to them, but the intent and meaning
of the character in 8859-1 is now defined by reference to the
universal character standard, ISO/IEC 10646.
--Ken Whistler
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