The character over the letter you're referring to is a breve. Although MS doesn't provide keyboard shortcuts for those, you can still insert characters with them via Insert|Symbol (without the need for the CharisSil font) and you can assign your own keyboard shortcuts for them. You can also create them via their Unicode escape sequences (e.g. 0103, Alt-x creates ă).

Using Insert|Symbol, you will find the characters with breves in the Latin Extended-A character sub-set.

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Paul Edstein
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Hm, when I type alt+x I get ≈

when I go to insert -> symbols I can choose out of a limited number of fonts and none of them has the signs. (see picture 4)

The first is "normal text", which I assume is, what is selected out of the endless numbers of fonts. But I don't have "Latin-A extended". The Fonts beginning with "L" are "letter gothic std". (see picture 5).

I don't know how to use unicode.

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