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Originally Posted by JSWolf
ē = ê is not correct. ē is telling the reader how to pronounce the vowel e.
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So does ê.
While this letter is nowadays mainly used in French, where it traditionally marked a long vowel (and often an omitted s), it's also used in many Latin books instead of ē.
Therefore, letters with a circumflex are the best replacement for letters with a macron and have been used to mark long vowels in textbooks for many different languages for quite some time until the advent of more precise pronunciation systems, e.g.
IPA.
You may want to limit your comments to things you're actually familiar with.