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caam_imt
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 Message 1 of 10
23 January 2012 at 3:52pm | IP Logged 
I was checking out the uralic languages and found that the Karelian
language (spoken in Russia) used to be written with the cyrillic script in soviet
times. In this
website
I found that they used the usual cyrillic letters plus some of them with
two dots above them, just like in Finnish language (ä, ö and others).

I just wanted to know if there is any way of typing the letters Я and Ю with dots above
them, as the Russian keyboard apparently doesn't allow the addition of diacritics, and
I can't find this characters on the internet (to copy/paste). Other languages that use
the cyrillic alphabet don't seem to use these specific two characters either.

This is just out of boredom heh, but I'm curious that if one day I learn karelian, I
would like to write it in cyrillic just for fun. Any ideas?



Edited by caam_imt on 23 January 2012 at 3:52pm

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23 January 2012 at 8:10pm | IP Logged 
Aw interesting. But afaiu these were just the projects? You could use this other alphabet instead:)
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 Message 3 of 10
23 January 2012 at 8:26pm | IP Logged 
They use images. You could try combining diacritics, they can be used with any letter. Combining umlaut is U+0308 ( http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/character.jsp?a=0308 ) but it doesn't seem to combine well with cyrilic. Lowercase looks fine ( я̈ ю̈ ) but it doesn't combinne correctly with uppercase (Я̈ Ю̈). It may work better with other fonts though.
There is also a similar looking combining character, A66F, meant especially for cyrilic, but it doesn't work with my font:
я꙯ ю꙯
Я꙯ Ю꙯

Here are tables of all cyrilic characters:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_characters_in_Unicode

You can use this tool to create your own keyboard layout:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb964665

Edited by LaughingChimp on 23 January 2012 at 8:27pm

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23 January 2012 at 9:37pm | IP Logged 
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do the lower case я and ю with dots look better than this on your comp?
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24 January 2012 at 2:29am | IP Logged 
No. It looked fine while writing, but I can't see the dots at all now. If I try to edit the post, they are back there.
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 Message 6 of 10
25 January 2012 at 4:41pm | IP Logged 
That's a font issue. Я̈ Ю̈ display perfectly while writing this message; when I hit 'post' a different font will be used, which shows the umlaut superimposed on the letters and not really visible -- just like in your post. Selecting those characters and pushing 'show selection source' (in a Mozilla browser) uses a monospaced font again, which clearly shows the combined characters.
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25 January 2012 at 5:33pm | IP Logged 
I don't see the combined characters in any of the cases :/
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25 January 2012 at 6:05pm | IP Logged 
I can see them when I copy them from the message above and paste them into a MS Word
document.

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