Typing Accented Vowels in HTML

[Kevin Bray]

Any accent/diacritic combination in the Unicode standard can be  
inserted in HTML by declaring the accented character, followed by the  
accent character, in successive numerical (decimal or hexidecimal)  
entity declarations.

For example, я́ gives the accented /я/ character  
discussed below.

A handy tool for trying combinations of Cyrillic characters and  
accents/diacritics can be found at:

http://arkhiv.net/cyrillic.php

Of course, some browsers display the character combinations with more  
clarity than others do.

Kevin Bray


On 29 Aug 2006, at 20:42, James M Tonn (jtonn at Princeton.EDU) wrote:

> 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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>> -----Original Message-----
>> 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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