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-A horizontal bar above
a vowel. The meaning
of the vowel varies
, but in the
Maori language
(mi) it indicates a long vowel
.
+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.
+
+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.
+
+
+Macrons are expressed in HTML via utf-8 escapes:
|Letter | HTML |Letter |HTML
|Ā |Ā |ā |ā
|Ē |Ē |ē |ē
|Ī |Ī |ī |ī
|Ō |Ō |ō |ō
|Ū |Ū |ū |ū
|Ǖ |Ǖ |ǖ |ǖ
