7/3/2023 0 Comments Hawaiian okina symbol mac![]() Since that time, both Apple and Microsoft have embraced the Unicode technology that enhances support for different languages and character sets without the use of customized fonts. Some commercial vendors, such as Guava Graphics, also adapted this system, so you can switch between their fonts and “HI” fonts easily. These fonts are still available on the Kualono website, but are no longer supported. For many years we offered HI fonts for both Macintosh and Windows. ![]() These fonts addressed the lack of support for the ‘okina (glottal) and kahakō (macron) in fonts of that time. Nearly twenty years ago I was involved in the development of the “HI” font standard while working at Hale Kuamo‘o, the Hawaiian Language Center at the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo.
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