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Originally Posted by cybmole
do these characters appear in any modern language i.e. am I ever likely to encounter them in a different book ? If not, I'll just substitute normal e & i .
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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.)