Re: Mercury News: Hawaiian on a Mac

From: Deborah Goldsmith (goldsmit@apple.com)
Date: Thu Sep 05 2002 - 17:00:39 EDT


On Thursday, September 5, 2002, at 08:32 AM, Doug Ewell wrote:
> Does everyone (Apple included) agree that the kahakō is U+0304
> COMBINING
> MACRON and the ʻokina is U+02BB MODIFIER LETTER TURNED COMMA?
>
Our Hawaiian keyboard generates precomposed vowels with macron, not a
combining macron. But yes, the kahakō is a macron. And ʻokina is U+02BB.

The following was typed with the Hawaiian keyboard if anyone is curious:

āēīōūĀĒĪŌŪʻ

Deborah Goldsmith
Manager, Fonts & Unicode
Apple Computer, Inc.
goldsmit@apple.com



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