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A macron is a type of accent; it consists of a horizontal bar over a vowel. It is used in several minority languages, of which NewZealand, Maori (mi) matters here. Maori, should really be written as Māori. However, the Latin character set that is predominantly used (see iso-8859-1(7)) does not have macron accents in it. This means that while people are using applications that don't use utf-8(7) -- predominantly older operating systems and applications such as Microsoft Office with the language set to English -- we will have trouble with the Māori language which uses all ascii characters except for the macron. |
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Also, things like PostScript and [PDF] have built in character sets that require extra fiddling with fonts and encodings if you use characters outside the default, which is what causes the problem described in HowToCreatePDFsFromWordWithMacrons. |
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Macrons are expressed in HTML via utf-8 escapes: |
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|Ā |Ā |ā |ā |
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|Ē |Ē |ē |ē |
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|Ī |Ī |ī |ī |
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|Ō |Ō |ō |ō |
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|Ū |Ū |ū |ū |
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|Ǖ |Ǖ |ǖ |ǖ |
