Founding a Perlmongers group

[Joel Bernstein]

On 18 March 2010 10:06, Dave Hodgkinson <davehodg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 18 Mar 2010, at 16:41, Luis Motta Campos wrote:
>
>> Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
>>> On 18 Feb 2010, at 08:22, James Laver wrote:
>>>> I'll have all those pythoners learning Perl before you know it ;)
>>>
>>> Stock up on diacritics. You'll need them.
>>
>> I like diacritics. It makes reading (even more) interesting.
>
> Mañana.
>
> Anyone know how to get a horizontal overbar or a cup-shape accent
> on the Mac? Typing pinyin without them is an arse.

I believe both of these are in the "US Extended" keyboard layout. So
add one of those. Vowel-plus-macron (first tone) is then
option-a+vowel, and Vowel-plus-caron (third tone) is option-v+vowel.

A better solution than switching keymap may exist but I'm not familiar.

/joel