[unicode] Re: x-bar character

2001-03-22 Thread Otto Stolz
Am 2001-03-21 um 18:56 UCT hat Eric Hausen geschrieben: Can anyone tell me the character code for the x-bar symbol (mathematical mean). This is a sequence of two Unicode characters, viz. U+0078 LATIN SMALL LETTER X U+0305 COMBINING OVERLINE Incidentally, the bar (rather than x-bar)

[unicode] Re: x-bar character

2001-03-22 Thread John Cowan
Otto Stolz scripsit: This is a sequence of two Unicode characters, viz. U+0078 LATIN SMALL LETTER X U+0305 COMBINING OVERLINE Incidentally, the bar (rather than x-bar) signifies the mean; the bar could be applied to any name indicating the mean of all and any values having that name.

[unicode] Re: x-bar character

2001-03-22 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, John Cowan wrote: Hmm. If you multiply x-bar by y-bar, surely you want the bars to be separated, not run together into a single bar (which would be the mean of x times y), no? In that case COMBINING MACRON would be better. Or should x-bar times y-bar be written with

[unicode] Re: x-bar character

2001-03-22 Thread Kenneth Whistler
Roozbeh asked: I remember seeing an invisible times character somewhere, I think it was in 3.2 tables. Would you look? U+2062 INVISIBLE TIMES You can find such things at: http://www.unicode.org/unicode/alloc/Pipeline.html and http://www.unicode.org/charts/draftunicode32/ or in the