Macron below

The macron as a character, also called an underscore, does not exist in European languages ​​, but is to be found in non-European languages ​​and in transliterations sometimes. Located in central Australia Uluru and Kata Tjuta rock formations, for example, lead a macron in the name. The names come from the Pitjantjatjara, the language of the local Anangu ( Aborigines ).

In German dictionaries a macron below shows a vowel (example: walking | occurs ) or more vowels (Example: ver | hee | ing ) the emphasis and the long debate this vowel or vowels in this.

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In the character encodings ASCII and ISO 8859 neither the macron yet finished letters with macron underneath occur among them.

Unicode contains many characters with pre underscore, and can represent more characters with macron including by adjusting a combining Makrons (U 0331 COMBINING MACRON BELOW ) below.

Example: R o

A single low - macron is included as character U 02 CD () in Unicode. It should not be confused it with the similar looking underscore, which in ASCII and Unicode U 005 F at position is coded.

In the typesetting system TeX and LaTeX any characters with macron can be shown below. There is this in text mode for the text set the command \ b { a}, which uses a.