You can place a unicode character at the front of HTML, and, if you’re running an intelligent browser, it will ‮present everything as if mirrored. ‮present everything as if mirrored.

Examine the Unicode standard’s code page collection for “Latin small letter a with macron”. Nets U0100.pdf “Latin small letter a with macron” appears on chart as 0101. This is a hexidemial number which points to U+0101 as its code point. Converting 0101 to decimal gets you 257, this is the same as the HTML entity code. Thus one can enter either ā or ā and get the right glyph [ā|ā] Put ā character into a view via Rails that is back-ended by a PostGres database. Using script/console, write the collection of models that contain this accented character to a YAML file.