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NatalieGraham-e
Community Member
4 years ago

Macrons for Māori and Cree in Rise 360

Hello, My team is working on a course in Rise 360 that will require macrons (Ā ā Ē ē Ī ī Ō ō Ū ū). We've been using Open Sans for this project, and the macrons end up looking like a squished serif...
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RonanOMalley-4f
Community Member
4 years ago

Any update on this? I'm based in New Zealand where we use the Māori language in almost every module we make. A lot of words in the language contain macrons.

 

The Body and Heading fonts seem to be fine for the most part, though there are still a few fonts in there that cannot handle macrons.

 

However, when it comes to the menu, no matter what font is used, the macrons always cause a 'squished serif font' to appear.

 

It would be great if this could be corrected as our clients don't appreciate seeing their language represented in the way it appears in the menu in Rise.

Thanks

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hazelB
Staff
4 years ago

Hi Ronan! May I know which font you are using? We've updated the built-in fonts in Rise 360 last 2/2022 which should now support more glyphs such as accented characters, or symbols that use diacritics and macrons. With the exception of Lato which innately has limited glyph support, the rest of the built-in fonts have received this upgrade. 

Please check out this article about How to Get Non-Latin Characters to Display Properly.

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    RonanOMalley-4f
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Hi Hazel,

    We were using Lato, but a few different fonts were not working with Macrons.

    After I wrote my previous message we discovered the new themes in Rise. Changing our theme to either Apex or Horizon fixed all of the fonts.

    Whatever the code is in the Rise theme must be causing issue with macrons. The issue in Rise is that the macrons were causing the letters to default to a different font in menu of the module.