Unicode (UTF-8) for overlined characters

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Hello, I have been trying to find the unicode (UTF-8) character codes for overlined upper case letters (V,L,C,M) for use in Roman numerals with the 1000-multiplier. It is basically the same letter with a bar on top of the letter.
I also need the overlined decimal digits to display recurring decimals. I must have missed something, because theses characters appear quite basic to me.
Many thanks in advance.
 
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This may not help you, but in the tex environment, you can define overbars for any characters using the \bar{} markup.

Code:
\bar{V} ~ \bar{L} ~ \bar{C} ~ \bar{M} ~ \bar{0} ~ \bar{1} \ldots \bar{9}

[tex] \bar{V} ~ \bar{L} ~ \bar{C} ~ \bar{M} ~ \bar{0} ~ \bar{1} \ldots \bar{9}[/tex]

If you're just looking for a way to markup characters in this forum, this method can be quite handy.

[tex]\bar{v} = \frac{x_2 - x_1}{t_2 - t_1}[/tex]
 
In fact, the tex code is very useful for me too, as I need to write that as one of my steps!
Thank you both of you for the prompt response.
 
I'm glad to know it can help. I find the tex markup here to be quite useful and wish other forums supported it.