The font in your document must be set to one that includes these characters.

More detailed instructionsĪbout typing accents with ALT keys are available.

These work only in Microsoft Word 2003 and above.

Punctuation symbol) in any Windows application.

If you are using a recent version of Microsoft Word (2003+), you can use the following ALT key plus a numeric code can be used to type a Latin character (accented letter or Users can either activate it from the control panel or download it from Microsoft New Zealand. Recent versions of Windows include a Maori keyboard utility which allows users to easily type long marks from the keyboard. The Unicode encoding under the View menu of your browser. You will need to manually switch from Western encoding view to If you see question marks or odd characters on a Web site instead of Hawaiian and Maori long vowels Doulos SIL - Another phonetics font with long vowels.Junicode - Includes Runes, Old English characters and medieval characters.Gentium - Includes ancient Greek and all phonetic symbols.Cardo - Includes ancient Greek and Hebrew.TITUS Cyberbit - Includes ancient Greek, Hebrew, Sanskrit, Runes and other scripts.Or ancient scholars and include additional symbols. These include Times New Roman, Cambria, Arial, Helvetica, Garamond, Palatino/Book Antiqua and many others.Īdditional freeware fonts can be downloaded from from the sites below. Many modern provided by Micosoft (for Windows) or Apple (for Macintosh) include the long marks. Other Polynesian languages such as Tongan (the fakau ʻ a) use either this symbol or a variant of an apostrophe to indicate a glottal stop.

The ʻokina mark used in Hawaiian to signify a glottal stop as in the island name Oʻahu is technically an upside down apostrophe (U+02BB), which is similar to a left facing (and upside down) apstrophe symbol used in English single quotes. Therefore, they may not be fully supported in any software or platform not equipped to handle Unicode data. Set used for Spanish, French and Italian, but they are a part of Unicode. Long marks are not a part of the older Latin 1 encoding Long Marks, ʻOkina and Unicode Long Mark (e.g.

Other Accents (Acute/Umlaut) (New Page).

Macintosh OS X Extended Keyboard Accent Codes.

Thanks to Andrew Thomas for technical advice. If you are typing these Polynesian languages without long marks, then you need do nothing,īut if you need to include long marks, then you may want to use these

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