Michele,
It should be if you specify UTF-8 as your character set:
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/014d/index.htm
On Jul 17, 2007, at 9:35 AM, Michele Combs wrote:
> Anyone know whether the o with the overbar is OK to use in EAD
> XML? The
> overbar alone as a spacer is a legit symbol in the Latin-1 (ISO
> 8859-1)
> character set (listed as ¯) but o *with* the overbar is not an
> included letter (see http://www.december.com/html/spec/latin1.html).
> Also it doesn't appear in the special characters bar when editing
> an EAD
> document in XMetaL. It's causing some problems with our indexing
> process so if I can make a good argument for replacing it with a plain
> "o" in our finding aids that would be lovely.
>
> Thanks --
>
> Michele C.
>
>
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