How to combine chars, e.g., "a" with a circle around it?

[Jay Freedman]

See http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Overbar.htm

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

In addition, if you have the Arial Unicode MS font installed, look for the
Enclosed Alphanumerics character subset.