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zbowling | 11 months ago

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|11 months ago

Unfortunately you can't spell Hawaiʻi in ISO-8859-1.

Aloisius|11 months ago

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.

brianwawok|11 months ago

But does anyone not know what Hawaii is?

freedomben|11 months ago

Need to write a web extension to inject some javascript to show a loading screen for a few seconds and download a few MB of js so it feels like a modern website. Should probably wrap the whole thing in a SPA too so we have options in the future