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Re:Unity Weta Tools by amanzi on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @06:46PM (#37056500)
Good to see them using the macrons appropriately (unlike the title of this post). "weta" has quite a different meaning to "wētā" :-)
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Re:Unity Weta Tools by striking on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @07:30PM (#37056852)
HN strips lots of Unicode stuff from titles.
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Re:Unity Weta Tools by tomilola39 on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @07:00PM (#37056596)
How so?
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Re:Unity Weta Tools by Nition on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @07:19PM (#37056768)
Wētā: https://maoridictionary.co.nz/word/9244

Weta: https://maoridictionary.co.nz/word/45259

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Re:Unity Weta Tools by rendaw on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @01:15AM (#37058949)
In Maori, but in English they were dropped: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/weta#English
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Re:Unity Weta Tools by Cthulhu_ on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @04:22AM (#37059986)
More importantly, why? While I get you wouldn't want to zalgo-ise the site or encourage the use of unicode emoji, stripping or preventing the use of diacritics seems like it's excluding a lot of languages.
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