Page titles with Unicode macron characters

Kaminari · Post by **Kaminari** » 2017-06-03, 23:07:32

Most VGM packs with Japanese titles drop their macron characters in favour of classic double (long) vowels, like Touhou Gensoukyou. Occasionally however, a few packs are released with a Unicode macron in them, like Meikyū Jiin Dababa.

Unfortunately, this is how the "Press Start 2P" font displays them on the website:

Nevertheless it seems that the macron character should be supported by the font, as shown on DaFont:

http://www.dafont.com/press-start-2p.fo ... 6%23363%3B

grauw · Post by **grauw** » 2017-06-04, 21:30:15

The font has an diaeresis and a circumflex, but no macron, right?

Kaminari · Post by **Kaminari** » 2017-06-04, 21:45:37

Not sure about the font used on VGM Rips, but the offline version available on DaFont has macron support (I just tested it in LibreOffice).

grauw · Post by **grauw** » 2017-06-04, 22:37:37

Heh you’re right, it’s right there at the top, missed that!

Kaminari · Post by **Kaminari** » 2017-10-15, 20:27:03

I'll recycle this thread to signal character encoding bugs or missing diacritics in page titles.

MakyÅ? Densetsu -> Makyō Densetsu
http://vgmrips.net/packs/pack/the-legendary-axe-tg-16

Tengai Makyō: Ziria
http://vgmrips.net/packs/pack/tengai-ma ... ne-cd-rom2

Tengai Makyō 2: Manjimaru
http://vgmrips.net/packs/pack/tengai-ma ... er-cd-rom2

Tengai Makyō: Fūun Kabuki Den
http://vgmrips.net/packs/pack/tengai-ma ... er-cd-rom2

Tom · Post by **Tom** » 2017-10-16, 14:08:22

Speaking of which, should this pack be renamed for consistency? I went with the "makyou" spelling back then.

ctr · Post by **ctr** » 2017-10-16, 16:32:38

currently we add vowels as a norm and using macrons as an exception, so renaming isn't necessary.

Tom · Post by **Tom** » 2017-10-17, 9:59:30

Ah, good. That's the spelling I prefer, too.

Kaminari · Post by **Kaminari** » 2017-10-17, 15:18:47

I prefer diacritics because Hepburn vowels are just lazy and not necessarily a norm in every country (we use macrons in France). But you make the calls.

That leaves the obvious encoding bugs like the one I mentioned previously. I've seen a couple of other cases which I'll report as well when I stumble upon them again.