<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Fejes László kirjoitti 12.2.2008 kello 13.33:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">According to the letter, the missing characters are: Ӱ, Ӧ, Ҥ, Ӓ, Ӹ (у, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; ">о, а, ы with an "umlaut" and н with an upper right tail).</span></div></blockquote></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>So, the characters in question are:</div><div><br></div><div>04A4 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LIGATURE GHE</div><div>04A5 CYRILLIC SMALL LIGATURE GHE</div><div>04D2 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS</div><div>04D3 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS</div><div>04E6 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS</div><div>04E7 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS</div><div>04F0 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS</div><div>04F1 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS</div><div>04F8 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER YERU WITH DIAERESIS</div><div>04F9 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER YERU WITH DIARESIS</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>The characters have already been incorporated into the Unicode standard (and the official ISO/IEC 10646 as well).</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">However, ö <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; ">and ä are practically present in all fonts...</span></div></blockquote><br><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; ">Please note, that this is a misunderstanding. In the Cyrillic script the above mentioned Cyrillc letters are to be used. In the Latin script the following Latin characters are used:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1;">00C4 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1;">00D6 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1;">00E4 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1;">00F6 LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1;">Mixing scripts is a mess and causes a lot of trouble.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1;">I do not quite understand the point of the "open letter", since the characters are standardised, fonts with wide Cyrillic are freely available. See for example:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1;"><a href="http://www.sil.org/computing/catalog/show_software_catalog.asp?by=cat&name=Font">http://www.sil.org/computing/catalog/show_software_catalog.asp?by=cat&name=Font</a></span></div><br>Regards,<br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lucida Grande; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lucida Grande; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; 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