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Originally Posted by cybmole
ok thanks - does the unicode range name of latin imply a connection with the language Latin or is that co-incidence ?
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There is a connection, but it doesn't mean those characters are used to typeset Latin (although they may be). The name Latin here is because this alphabet we are using is called the Latin one, because it was originally used for Latin (as opposed to Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, etc, which use different writing systems). English, German, French, Italian, Swedish, Welsh, Turkish, Swahili, Basque, Hungarian... all use the Latin characters, some of them with some modifications.
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do these characters appear in any modern language i.e. am I ever likely to encounter them in a different book ? If not, I'll just substitute normal e & i .
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You are unlikely to find them, unless you like reading scholarly texts about old or foreign languages, in which case you'd probably already know that. If you want more information, that horizontal line is called a
macron.