Macron

Problem: A browser or server (not PmWiki) changes a character with a macron to a character with a circumflex on save (see the rightmost column in the table below).

Character	Unicode	ISO-8859-1	approximation HTML entity	chr
Capital letter A with macron	U+0100	AA	`Ā` Ā	Â
Small letter a with macron	U+0101	aa	`ā` ā	â
Capital letter E with macron	U+0112	EE	`Ē` Ē	Ç
Small letter e with macron	U+0113	ee	`ē` ē	ç
Capital letter I with macron	U+012A	II	`Ī` Ī	Î
Small letter i with macron	U+012B	ii	`ī` ī	î
Capital letter O with macron	U+014C	OO	`Ō` Ō	Ô
Small letter o with macron	U+014D	oo	`ō` ō	ô
Capital letter U with macron	U+016A	UU	`Ū` Ū	Û
Small letter u with macron	U+016B	uu	`ū` ū	û

References

http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~kimihia/unicode-macrons

http://www.motive.co.nz/glossary/macron.php

http://www.tetaurawhiri.govt.nz/english/unicode/macrons_issues.shtml

http://www.natlib.govt.nz/en/macrons.html

http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~kimihia/maori-keyboard

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