Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
From the "Add Input Language" window make sure the "Keyboard layout/IME" check-box is checked. From the "Keyboard layout/IME" popup menu select "Alt-Latin" and click the "OK" button. Back in the "Text Services and Input Languages" window, in the "Default input languages" section, click the popup menu and click "English (United States) - Alt ...
The macron is called kahakō, and it indicates vowel length, which changes meaning and the placement of stress. Māori. In modern written Māori, the macron is used to designate long vowels, with the trema mark sometimes used if the macron is unavailable (e.g. "wähine"). [6] The Māori word for macron is tohutō. The term pōtae ("hat") is ...
I'm using the standard US International keyboard with dead keys, on which AltGr-Shift-3 or AltGr-# is a dead key for the macron; i.e. right Alt key + shift + 3/#, release, then type the vowel you want a macron over. --Jim Henry 22:49, 17 August 2009 (UTC) Doesn't work for me (Windows XP SP3) --Zom-B 06:23, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
The English word Maori comes from the Māori language, where it is spelled Māori. In NZ (English) the actual Maori word, including the macron, is frequently used in written English as a foreign word. To me, this is what has/is happening in NZ. Countless articles do not spell it out and cause ambiguity and a lack of clarity.
“Opt” stands for “option,” and you can think of it as the option to add the Mac keyboard symbols you’ve been looking for! Like the alt keys on a Windows keyboard, the two opt keys are ...
Combining Diacritical Marks is a Unicode block containing the most common combining characters.It also contains the character "Combining Grapheme Joiner", which prevents canonical reordering of combining characters, and despite the name, actually separates characters that would otherwise be considered a single grapheme in a given context.
Ā, lowercase ā ("A with macron"), is a grapheme, a Latin A with a macron, used in several orthographies.Ā is used to denote a long A.Examples are the Baltic languages (e.g. Latvian), Polynesian languages, including Māori and Moriori, some romanizations of Japanese, Persian, Pashto, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (which represents a long A sound) and Arabic, and some Latin texts (especially for ...
Macrons lower the usefulness of Wikipedia by lowering the search rankings of the non-macron titles (which would only be redirects to the macron titles). Most people do not type macrons. This is why the default keyboard layouts don't allow for the typing of macrons, because most people don't use them.