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Tuesday, June 4th, 2024 11:19 PM

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Macrons to be added to special characters

We're based in New Zealand and the Māori language uses macrons over letters to denote a longer vowel sound. At the moment in the list of special characters the closest thing I can find is the tilda (wiggly line above a letter) but that's not technically correct and it should be a macron. I would like to suggest that special vowels with macrons be added to the special characters list. In Te Reo Māori (the Māori language) a macron can change the meaning of a word. For example from the film industry - the famous wētā workshop should be spelt with macrons over the e and the a, and is the name of an insect. Without the macrons weta means excrement. Quite the different meaning from two little lines!

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10 months ago

dhtbrowne: The problem is that vowels with macrons are not supported by the main character set used by IMDb, ISO-Latin-1. All the vowels with macrons will be available once IMDb has fully implemented Unicode. However, that is probably still quite a while away; it has been under contemplation since 1997. (See https://web.archive.org/web/20060101140203/http://www.imdb.com/Newsletter/newsletter-13#iso.)