Is there a character equivalent to the underscore " _ " which occupies the upper position? Dash " - " will not do. If it were me, I would call it upper-score. But I do not see this anywhere.
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What you seek is generally known as a "macron", "overline", "overscore", or "overbar". It exists at several Unicode code points; which one you want depends on whether you want a macron or an overline (the former being shorter), and whether or not you want a combining character.
From Wikipedia, an overline may be found at U+203E (spacing) or U+0305 (combining), and a macron at U+00AF or U+02C9 (spacing, and apparently identical in appearance), or U+0304 (combining).
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Useful to combine _ with ‾ to make annotations like ̅_|→. On Linux, this can be done by pressing Ctrl+Shift+U, followed by the 4 Unicode characters, followed by the space or enter key and eventually followed by the character you want to combine (help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/…). It worked in software like Geany but may not work in all software.– baptxDec 23, 2020 at 12:50
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Update: the character you want to combine should be preceding the combining character instead of following it, so it becomes _̅|→ (it will not be displayed correctly for all fonts: ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/284076/…).– baptxDec 24, 2020 at 15:07
You could try a web service to look up the unicode character you want by drawing.
Some results:
Horizontal scan line-3: ⎻
Unicode hexadecimal: 0x23bb
Combining double macron: ͞
Unicode hexadecimal: 0x35e
Upper one eighth block: ▔
Unicode hexadecimal: 0x2594
Combining overline: ̅
Unicode hexadecimal: 0x305
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If you know the symbol name, search it on amp-what Unicode characters & entities. Example: Overline symbol Feb 19, 2014 at 6:52
How to do an overline?
... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ... I don't know.
Joke aside, here is a short way to generate them in code if you need them (you can adapt to any language, here in Python):
print(chr(8254)) # ‾
print(chr(175)) # ¯
Alt+0175 gives you upper score ¯¯
(Make sure you press and hold Alt while typing the numbers)
