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Latvian, Cyrillic, Estonian, Polish Unicode characters
Latvian capital A macron, Ā , is Ā
| Ā |
ā |
Ć |
ć |
Č |
č |
Ē |
ē |
Ģ |
ģ |
| Ā |
ā |
Ć |
ć |
Č |
č |
Ē |
ē |
Ģ |
ģ |
| Ī |
ī |
Ķ |
ķ |
Ļ |
ļ |
Ł |
ł |
Ņ |
ņ |
| Ī |
ī |
Ķ |
ķ |
Ļ |
ļ |
Ł |
ł |
Ņ |
ņ |
| Ō |
ō |
Ŗ |
ŗ |
Š |
š |
Ū |
ū |
Ž |
ž |
| Ō |
ō |
Ŗ |
ŗ |
Š |
š |
Ū |
ū |
Ž |
ž |
Lithuanian capital A ogonek, Ą , is Ą
| Ą |
ą |
Č |
č |
Ė |
ė |
Ę |
ę |
Į |
į |
| Ą |
ą |
Č |
č |
Ė |
ė |
Ę |
ę |
Į |
į |
| Š |
š |
Ū |
ū |
Ų |
ų |
Ž |
ž |
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| Š |
š |
Ū |
ū |
Ų |
ų |
Ž |
ž |
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Cyrillic capital I, И , is И
| Ё |
Є |
І |
Ї |
Ј |
А |
Б |
В |
| Ё |
Є |
І |
Ї |
Ј |
А |
Б |
В |
| ё |
є |
і |
ї |
ј |
а |
б |
в |
| ё |
є |
і |
ї |
ј |
а |
б |
в |
| Г |
Д |
Е |
Ж |
З |
И |
Й |
К |
| Г |
Д |
Е |
Ж |
З |
И |
Й |
К |
| г |
д |
е |
ж |
з |
и |
й |
к |
| г |
д |
е |
ж |
з |
и |
й |
к |
| Л |
М |
Н |
О |
П |
Р |
С |
Т |
| Л |
М |
Н |
О |
П |
Р |
С |
Т |
| л |
м |
н |
о |
п |
р |
с |
т |
| л |
м |
н |
о |
п |
р |
с |
т |
| У |
Ф |
Х |
Ц |
Ч |
Ш |
Щ |
Ъ |
| У |
Ф |
Х |
Ц |
Ч |
Ш |
Щ |
Ъ |
| у |
ф |
х |
ц |
ч |
ш |
щ |
ъ |
| у |
ф |
х |
ц |
ч |
ш |
щ |
ъ |
| Ы |
Ь |
Э |
Ю |
Я |
а |
б |
в |
| Ы |
Ь |
Э |
Ю |
Я |
а |
б |
в |
| ы |
ь |
э |
ю |
я |
ў |
Ѣ |
ѣ |
| ы |
ь |
э |
ю |
я |
ў |
Ѣ |
ѣ |
Estonian capital A diaeresis, Ä, is Ä
| Ä |
ä |
Ö |
ö |
Ü |
ü |
Õ |
õ |
| Ä |
ä |
Ö |
ö |
Ü |
ü |
Õ |
õ |
Polish capital Z with dot above, Ż, is Ż
| Ł |
ł |
Ó |
ó |
Ź |
ź |
Ż |
ż |
| Ł |
ł |
Ó |
ó |
Ź |
ź |
Ż |
ż |
Ulo Randpalu of Wisconsin, USA, wrote that he enters Estonian characters
by pressing NumLock and holding down Alt, typing +0196 on the numeric
keypad for upper case A diaeresis, etc.. This works because Estonian
characters are part of the Unicode Latin-1 Supplement, and thus in most
North American fonts. Neither Latvian nor Lithuanian nor Cyrillic characters
are in the Latin-1 Supplement. Latvian and Lithuanian are in Latin Extended-A;
the Cyrillic are in the Cyrillic set. Neither is usually in North American
fonts.
Glyph List 4 and embedded font characters
We use Microsoft's Verdana font with Glyph List 4 [WGL4], which includes
Latvian, Cyrillic, and many other Unicode characters. We embed these
font characters in web pages with Bitstream WebFont Maker™ for
Netscape browsers and Microsoft Weft™ for Internet Explorer browsers.
Thus viewers who do not have the font installed will still see
the characters. Unfortunately Bitstream no longer sells WebFont Maker™,
though continues to support its users.
Microsoft's TrueType core fonts for the web, including the Verdana
font with WGL4 characters for Windows 9x, NT, 2000, and XP, were free
downloads before September of 2002. They are included in Windows
XP. t Microsoft's Verdana, Georgia, and Trebuchet fonts work
well on monitors and printers with Latvian and Cyrillic WGL4
characters.
The WGL4 Verdana font does not include Cyrillic characters Ѣ
and ѣ, the capital and small letter yat. The text on Czarist
revenues includes them; they were discontinued after the 1918
revolution. In transcriptions of Cyrillic text these yat characters
may appear in a different font or as lozenges.
Browsers
The browsers Netscape 7, Internet Explorer 6, Opera 6 and Mozilla 1.x
correctly view and print these pages. Internet Eplorer 6 may need
a reboot to print correctly.
When Netscape 4.7x shows ? for Unicode characters,
click <Reload> to see the special chracters. In Netscape 4.7x,
clicking View, Page Source, produces gibberish.
I.E. 5.5 displays these Unicode characters correctly
on screen, but will not print them.
Graphic images
Initially we used images in .gif format, in 16 or 32 colours, from
scans at 72 or 96 dpi. Many more recently images are in .jpg format
at 60 to 70%.
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New 2001 March 21; updated
Mon, 2004-01-19
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Copyright © 2002, Bill Apsit.