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  • Definition: Digital Colonialism

    Definition: Digital Colonialism

    Digital colonialism deals with the ethics of digitizing Indigenous data and information without fully informed consent. Digital colonialism is the new deployment of a quasi-imperial power over a vast number of people, without their explicit consent, manifested in rules, designs, languages, cultures and belief systems by a vastly dominant power (Renata Avila, 2017). A new…

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  • Macrons in Gnome

    Macrons in Gnome

    Preferences->Keyboard (from the gnome panel menu), the Layout tab has the Maori keyboard layout. –

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  • Macrons for Mac OSX (older than Lion)

    Macrons for Mac OSX (older than Lion)

    To enable macrons to be created in Mac OSX systems that are older than Lion. 1. Launch the System Preferences application 2. Navigate to Language & Text, then the Input Sources tab 3. Find Māori on the list and tick the checkbox next to it 4. Tick the box next to “Show Input menu in…

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  • Macrons in iPad 4, iPhone 4 and later

    Macrons in iPad 4, iPhone 4 and later

    These devices and their operating systems have system wide keyboard(s) available by default. Mac OSX Lion can also create macrons this way. Hold down the key for the vowel you want to macronise (Maybe a second). A small dialog will pop up showing you several options, including a macron.

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  • Te Reo Maori macrons in Samsung Galaxy

    Te Reo Maori macrons in Samsung Galaxy

    Samsung Galaxy 4 Samsung Galaxy 4 has several default common languages that do not include Māori or other language to create macrons. To install Māori and other languages, the easiest method is to install an app from Google Store. Latvian is the only language currently available that will create and recognise macrons. Install any soft keyboard…

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