Re: Cyrillic Rokbeigalmki Transliterations

On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:

> > Date:         Wed, 28 Nov 2001 22:01:55 -0500
> > From: John Cowan <cowan@...>
> >
> > Frank George Valoczy scripsit:
> >
> > > By my count there are at least a dozen characters in various non-Russian
> > > Cyrillic alphabets that are not in Win-1251, and some aren't even in
> > > UTF-8.
> >
> > Cyrillic letters not in Unicode?  Please let me know.  I already know
> > that the archaic letter IOTATED A is missing.  If there are others,
> > I can let the right people know so that there will be a proposal.
>
> That was my first reaction too (that Frank should tell you).
>
> But I'm not sure how Frank checked the repertoire. If you set an HTML
> editor or similar to UTF-8 and look through the Windows Character Map,
> you don't get all of Unicode, only what's in the selected font --- and
> someone (you?) told us earlier that the commonly used Windows fonts
> are severely out of date (Unicode 1 instead of 3).
I know I've said that the commonly used Windows fonts use a subset of
Unicode 1 named WGL4 (Windows Glyph Level 4, I presume an earlier one was
WinLatin-1, but I don't know about the others), this could be what you're
thinking of


Tristan

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