are. I don't think those are macrons, actually. And one of the ways that people, like if you don't know how to make a line over a letter, or if there's an input system that doesn't accept that, then there's a shortcut or a variation that you can do, such that you just type the letter that you would normally put a line over, and then the letter X right after it. And everyone knows that when there's a letter followed by an X like that, that means, oh, that's actually just putting a line over it. Now, as Unicode becomes more popular, that is, I think, less common and less necessary. But it's something that might still be used. In Maori, for instance, in New Zealand, again, you've got the letters over the, rather, you've got the lines over certain letters, like the A and the E and the I and the O, I think. And again, if you don't have access to that A symbol, or the line symbol, then when typing something that normally would have a line over it, some people just double the letter. You (51/53)
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