As a follow on to my previous post about using macrons on the iPhone. Keola has a detailed description at his blog post here http://www.culturehacks.com/?p=1033 regarding a Hawai’i locale and macrons. . . .

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Many Māori and Pacific Peoples use alternative names to their birth names, often adopting an English name to be known by outside of the family. This is also a common practice with many non English speaking cultures in Asia. FaceBook.com in their quest to recognise the multilingual world we live in, today announced a new…

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Telecom NZ announced in Twitter that it is to include Māori words in their cell phone dictionaries for all new phones and some services http://www.telecom-media.co.nz/releases_detail.asp?id=3599&page=1&pagesize=10. Ka mau te wehi Telecom!. Unfortunately there will only be 100 common words (as decided by the office of the Māori Language Commission) included despite that fact the Māori have…

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To create macrons on the iPhone simply add the Latvian Keyboard to your default keyboard. Latvian has macrons as part of their character set. You then need to hold the vowel key down for a few seconds and select the macron vowel of your choice. All the macron vowels appear at the end of the…

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I am investigating how to create macrons the iPhone.  I must admit to feeling like i have gone back 13 and more years in my career to the days when i worked on macron technology for web sites and the PC. Thankfully a task that is now simple and requires little cognition. Like the old days ASCII…

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Although I am no longer involved with promotion of the Māori language via technology it is one of those things where the brain still has new ideas. One of them was to use Māori language in all social media for a day. Today in Twitter from @keoladonaghy  I received this link http://bit.ly/2kFGO for the Hawaiian language.…

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Google have released thier own web browser. It is called Google Chrome. I am writing this blog using Google chrome as my browser. For the last few days the interntional media have been busy discussing Google Chrome and reviewing it. So i will just make a quick observation that i find it visually appealing with…

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13 years ago when i started out in the ICT industry there were no Māori software products, writing a macron was impossible, and as hard as this is to believe now, only two Māori web sites existed. There was no .iwi.nz nor .maori.nz and no corpus of Māori computer terminology, not even for the word…

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