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Good to see them using the macrons appropriately (unlike the title of this post). "weta" has quite a different meaning to "wētā" :-)

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HN strips lots of Unicode stuff from titles.

How so?

Wētā: https://maoridictionary.co.nz/word/9244

Weta: https://maoridictionary.co.nz/word/45259

In Maori, but in English they were dropped: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/weta#English

More importantly, why? While I get you wouldn't want to zalgo-ise the site or encourage the use of unicode emoji, stripping or preventing the use of diacritics seems like it's excluding a lot of languages.

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