Typing Accented Vowels in HTML

[Tom Dolack]

For what it's worth, I have managed to get accented cyrillic vowels  
in HTML by just doing one of the workarounds in Word and either copy- 
pasting into my editor, or saving as html. The problem is that  
different browsers handle it differently. It shows up fine in Opera  
and Safari, comes out slightly askew, but still legibly, in Internet  
Explorer, but Netscape and Mozilla just ignore the accents. I haven't  
updated my Russian stuff in a couple of years, so maybe some of the  
newer versions handle things better now. If you wanted your entire  
class to have access to the accented characters it wouldn't be the  
most inconvenient thing to have them all download Opera  
(www.opera.com). I should note that I haven't tried Opera with a PC yet.

Tom Dolack
Yamada Language Center
University of Oregon

On Aug 29, 2006, at 10:27 AM, Michael Denner wrote:

> Bruno,
>
> Where, exactly, outside of MS Word do you wish to type accented  
> Cyrillic letters?
>
> I've pasted below Paul Gallagher's excellent workaround solution  
> for inserted accented characters in MS Word. I imagine the method  
> would work for any program that 1) allows macros; 2) allows  
> overlapping characters.
>
> I've never found a solution for accented characters in HTML, since  
> HTML cannot handle overlapping characters and there are no slots in  
> Unicode for accented Cyrillic. The only solution I've found is to  
> convert documents to Adobe Acrobat and  embed them into Web documents.
>

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