Re: Cyrillic -

From: Valeriy E. Ushakov (uwe@ptc.spbu.ru)
Date: Fri Sep 29 2000 - 17:55:42 EDT


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aleksandar Poposki [mailto:Aleks@m-p-c.org]
> Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 4:04 PM
> To: info@unicode.org
> Subject: Your opinion
>
> I'm the Webmaster of the Macedonian Orthodox Church website
> located at www.m-p-c.org. When I started this project I was not
> very familiar with Unicode and used 'home-made' fonts for Cyrillic
> characters, but learning about Unicode, I see it is the best way to
> go, as it is the International standard. Keeping this in mind, and
> other difficulties I've had, I wish to ask:

Do you plan to have Old Church Slavonic (OCS) in your pages?

Unicode lacks support for "letter titlo" (i.e. titlo with a letter)
used quite productively in OCS (in Russia at least), so you can't use
Unicode to write "The Lord" (with "slovo-titlo") or "The Gospel" (with
"glagol-titlo").

SY, Uwe

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