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Sailing from Berkeley to Hawaii in a 19ft Sailboat

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143 points protonbob | 1 comments | 02 Apr 25 15:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.45s | source
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zbowling ◴[02 Apr 25 18:05 UTC] No.43559490[source]▶
We forgot how to build websites like this. Lost art. Even the page is encoded iso-8859-1 and not UTF-8.
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NelsonMinar ◴[02 Apr 25 18:13 UTC] No.43559596[source]▶
Unfortunately you can't spell Hawaiʻi in ISO-8859-1.
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Aloisius ◴[02 Apr 25 19:24 UTC] No.43560515[source]▶
That's what html entities are for.

Though I'm not sure who decided the ʻokina needed its own character rather than the traditionally used apostrophe. It's a pain to type without a Hawaiian keyboard.

Besides, the Hawaiian diacritics are not part of English orthography, so the name of the state (and the big island) is just "Hawaii" in English. In Hawaiian, it's Hawaiʻi.

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1. dmoy ◴[02 Apr 25 20:19 UTC] No.43561046[source]▶
> Though I'm not sure who decided the ʻokina needed its own character rather than the traditionally used apostrophe. It's a pain to type without a Hawaiian keyboard.

I dunno, the glottal stop sounds pretty different from normal English usage of apostrophe. If anything it's closer to - than ', like in uh-oh.

French uses both grave and acute accent marks, and they sound very different.

Makes sense to me