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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    
Š š Ū ū Ų ų Ž ž    


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 .
Copyright © 2002, Bill Apsit.