In the subtitle where “atvīkė̄” occurs, the Verdana font is being used; Verdana 
is left out of the styling on the following line:

<div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, 
sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">Svēkė atvīkė̄ i Vikipedėjė <a 
href="/wiki/%C5%BDemaitiu_kalba" title="Žemaitiu kalba">žemaitiu 
kalbuo</a>,</div>
<div style="padding: 2px 0 0 20px; margin: 0; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 
sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">encikluopedėjė, katra gal redagoutė kuožnos 
nuorontis.</div>

Verdana does not support U+0304. Arial, however has supported it since Windows 
Vista.

The word “Vielībė̄jė” in the navigation bar appears to be formatted with Arial. 
It displays correctly on Windows.



From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
Of Arns Udovice
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 1:09 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Samogitian E with dot above and macron

Hello all,

On 2010-06-30 change became effective for Samogitian 
(http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=sgs). There are one letter 
which has many problems with rendering. It is E/e with dot above and macron 
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/bat-smg/0/0f/E_smg.jpg). You can see it 
in:
http://bat-smg.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%97rms_poslapis
atvīkė̄ or Vielībė̅jė. On Linux it is shown (in different shrifts) as „ė“ with 
macron between dot and letter or „ė“ with minus near letter (see attachment). 
On Windows macron is shown as box (or I haven't any good shrift). For now all 
writers use shrift with additional letter, ex. 
ftp://ftp.akl.lt/sriftai/Vytis/Naujas_Vytis/Vytis_1.002/ . Simple user don't 
use this letter - writes 'atvīkėė' or 'atvīkėn', even 'atvīkėi', but it is 
against rules.
This letter was introduced in 1998 in Samogitian writing book „Žemaičių rašyba“ 
(Samogitian writing) (ISBN: 998692071X). Latter it was used in all Samogitian 
books. Try to use in IT is complicated.
What I should to do what this letter come to unicode? As I read in 
http://www.unicode.org/pending/proposals.html it is better to deal about it in 
this thread at first.

Best regards,
Arns Udovīčė

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