How do I type ¯?

Using keyboard layouts in Windows 10.0.27729.1000

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Use this page to find out how to type a character on given keyboard or how many keyboards contain given characters.

Tell me how to write using !

The entered characters are as follows:

Hex	Dec	Name		Range	C#	HTML	URL
U+00AF	175	¯	MACRON	C1 Controls and Latin-1 Supplement (Latin-1 Supplement)	\u00af	¯	%C2%AF

System layouts

This text can be typed on 6 system layouts out of 217:

Canadian French	CONTROLMENU+OEM COMMA
French (Standard, AZERTY)	CONTROLMENU+7, SPACE
Colemak French (Standard, BÉPO)	CONTROLMENU+M, SPACE
German Extended (E1) German Extended (E2)	CONTROLMENU+W, SPACE
Greek Polytonic	OEM MINUS, OEM PERIOD
Canadian Multilingual Standard	SHIFTOEM 8+OEM 6, SPACE

Custom layouts

You can also use these custom-made keyboard layouts:

German Extended Keyboard Layout German International Keyboard Layout	OEM 8+OEM MINUS
German HTML-Programmer Keyboard Layout Norwegian - CHESS Keyboard Layout	CONTROLMENU+OEM MINUS
US International Extended Keyboard Layout	SHIFTOEM 8+OEM 2
Czech Extended Chess Keyboard Layout	CONTROLMENU+OEM 3
SuperLatin Keyboard Layout	CONTROLMENU+0, SPACE
Italiano - Internazionale Keyboard Layout	CONTROLMENU+7, SPACE
US-International Scientific Keyboard Layout	CONTROLMENU+B, SHIFT+OEM MINUS
Polski 2021 rozszerzony QWERTY Keyboard Layout	CONTROLMENU+Y, SPACE
Polski 2021 rozszerzony QWERTZ Keyboard Layout	CONTROLMENU+Z, SPACE
German UNZ 1 - Fraktur T Keyboard Layout	OEM FJ ROYA+OEM MINUS, OEM FJ ROYA+SPACE
Teclado español extendido Keyboard Layout Teclado iberoamericano español Keyboard Layout Teclado iberoamericano português Keyboard Layout Teclado latinoamericano rkgraqvqb Keyboard Layout	CONTROLMENU+OEM MINUS, OEM 5

Note that virtual keys are not always at the same place. For example, Q is next to the Tab key on US keyboard but next to the Caps Lock on French keyboard. You can click on each keyboard layout to find out how it defines the mapping.

Please note current limitations of the algorithm:

First found sequence is accepted, i.e. there might be better or more common ways of typing something on given keyboard.
It is greedy, i.e. if you have keys K, KA and AH, typing KAH will be deemed impossible as the KA key will be used and there is no H key.
It does not consider edits, i.e. it will claim A is impossible to type in the previous example, even though you could use AH and backspace.
It does not combine dead keys with ligatures, i.e. if you had ˇ + C = Č rule and there were only ˇ and CE keys, typing ČE would be deemed impossible.
It does not consider normalization equivalence, i.e. composite Ó cannot by typed using O and combining acute, either as a ligature or as separate keys.