Using characters with macrons in Counterculture posts

This is a tip that has come out of the Access & Description of Māori Resources forum this morning. To get macrons to display correctly on Counterculture (and the Web in general), replace the character with one of the following codes:

Ā – Ā
ā – ā
Ē – Ē
ē – ē
Ī – Ī
ī – ī
Ō – Ō
ō – ō
Ū – Ū
ū – ū

For example, Māori would be written as M&amp#257;ori (and then the browser should display it correctly). Again, this will be affected by different systems/fonts, etc, but this will be more effective than copying and pasting from Word.

The list can be found on Camelot: Guidelines for News on Counterculture.

Donna Barber
Library eServices

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