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Originally Posted by Doitsu
Since these characters usually indicate the length of a vowel, you lose bits of information, if you replace them with unaccented characters.
IMHO, it'd be better, if you replaced them with vowels with a circumflex:
ā = â, ē = ê, ī = î, ō = ô, ū = û
(Several Latin textbooks use this transliteration method, and ADE supports them because they're used in French.) |
ē = ê is not correct. ē is telling the reader how to pronounce the vowel e.