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adastra22 6 days ago

Is that part of Hepburn? It is not mentioned in the article, nor by most explainers that I’m familiar with.

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layer8 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepburn_romanization#Long_vowe...

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QuercusMax 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

The article says the new style says that you can use either a macron or a doubled letter, but it's not clear if that's supported for keyboard input on various platforms.

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kazinator 6 days ago | parent [-]

But in the case of ō, you can only use a doubled letter if the underlying word is おお. If it is おう then you don't have a doubled letter you can use; you need "ou" and that's not Hepburn any more. It is "wāpuro rōmaji" (word processor romaji).

	▲	shiomiru 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		"ou" is fine too, actually. See the proposal p. 14 (=16 in the PDF): https://www.bunka.go.jp/seisaku/bunkashingikai/sokai/pdf/942... (To differentiate between the case where it's actually two vowels, you have to put an apostrophe inbetween; their example is 小唄 -> ko'uta.)