For many users the way to insert a macron (ā,ē,ī,ō,ū) whilst writing is to find a page with one and copy/paste the needed character. Obviously there are easier ways, in this post I explore and experiment with a few methods to easily add macrons when entering content for the web.
Almost every web user will have encountered a ‘404 - Not Found’ error at some point. After reading an interesting discussion topic started by Ben Bradshaw on the Web Standards Wiki about 404 good practice I decided to fix our site’s 404 error page.
Richard MacManus of ReadWriteWeb wrote an interesting article last year about how current e-Government web trends are moving away from Portals or ‘one stop shops’ towards reusable web services.
After recently working on an application to generate Microsoft Excel documents using a PHP script, I ran into trouble with the PEAR package “Spreadsheet Excel Writer” which didn’t correctly display UTF-8 characters (Māori macrons in this case). Here is a fix!
