To: Doug Ewell From: Peter Kirk peter.r.kirk(at)ntlworld.com ReturnPath: peter.r.kirk(at)ntlworld.com Received: (qmail 13186 invoked by uid 0); 10 Jul 2003 16:28:31 -0000 from smtp-out7.blueyonder.co.uk (195.188.213.10) by ns.need.bg with SMTP; 10 Jul 2003 16:28:31 -0000 from ntlworld.com ([80.195.249.86]) by smtp-out7.blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Thu, 10 Jul 2003 17:28:28 +0100 Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 09:28:27 -0700 MIMEVersion: 1.0 ContentType: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Subject: Re: Combining diacriticals and Cyrillic Body: On 10/07/2003 08:45, Doug Ewell wrote: >You could try using the precomposed characters directly. (Look >throughout the Cyrillic block beginning at U+0400; you'll find them.) >These are canonically equivalent to the letter+diacritic combinations, >and are actually preferred in some contexts (Normalization Form C). >However, not all fonts contain glyphs for them, so you may be back at >Square 1. > > > Of the combinations which Vladimir is looking at, Cyrillic vowels (including some which are vowels in Bulgarian but not in Russian) with grave accents, only one pair 0400/0450 exists as a precomposed pair. -- Peter Kirk peter.r.kirk(at)ntlworld.com http://web.onetel.net.uk/~peterkirk/