If you're writing HTML by hand, you can explicity append a Unicode acute accent to the previous character by following it with ́ (ampersand pound 0769 semicolon). I've just tested this in both IE and Firefox. You do have to save the HTML using UTF-8 or some other Unicode encoding to preserve your Cyrillic.
Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Denner <mdenner at STETSON.EDU>
Date: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 7:16 pm
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Typing Accented Vowels in HTML
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
> Just now, having written that it's impossible to insert accented
> Cyrillic vowels, I noticed that at least on Википедия that there IS
> a way to display accented Cyrillic vowels that works for both IE
> and Firefox.
>
> In the править window, using the Спецсимволы buttons, you can
> insert an accent. For instance:
>
> Шара́шка
> моя́
>
> (You _should_ see the word шарашка with an accented /a/ and моя
> with an accented /я/.)
>
> I'm sure there's a way to do this in HTML—so long as you're using
> UTF-8.
>
> Anyone know how to do it? Seems like this would be very useful.
>
> mad
>
>
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> From: Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list
> [mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Dolack
> Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 1:46 PM
> To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Typing Accented Vowels in HTML
>
> 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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