South Slavic Characters

South Slavic Characters
Unicode: ISO-10646 Latin 2: ISO-8859-2 Microsoft Latin II: MS-CP1250
qwyx US-ASCII: ISO-8859-1 ISO-646-YU IBM-CP852 Apple-CE
Knowledge base

How diacritical characters are named

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                                 Character name explanation
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Character Name                   RFC-1345  S.Slavic name
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LATIN SMALL   LETTER c WITH ACUTE   c'     malo   mekano c
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH ACUTE   C'     VELIKO mekano C
LATIN SMALL   LETTER c WITH CARON   c<     malo   tvrdo  c
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CARON   C<     VELIKO tvrdo  C
LATIN SMALL   LETTER d WITH STROKE  d/     dj
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH STROKE  D/     DJ
LATIN SMALL   LETTER s WITH CARON   s<     sh
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH CARON   S<     SH
LATIN SMALL   LETTER z WITH CARON   z<     zh
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH CARON   Z<     ZH
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How standards are presented

The upper table (taken from the RFC-1345 document) lists the latin script South Slavic diacritical characters whose encoding will be explained. Some South Slavic languages are written in Cyrillic script. Standards for Cyrillic script, however, are not presented here - please see the Knowledge base for links to Cyrillic (and Latin) script coding standards.

Each standard is presented on a separate page (accessed via links at the top). Each of these pages contains a character table, as well as an example for testing. This allows you to test the capabilities of your system-browser-font configuration. In some of these pages you will see two test lines - one for testing your fixed-spaced and one for testing your proportionally spaced font.

How tests should be interpreted

If while displaying the individual test pages ONE OR MORE of the South Slavic characters are NOT displayed correctly, it means that your system-browser-font configuration DOES NOT interpret the standard in question correctly.

If ALL of the characters in test lines are displayed correctly, than your system-browser-font configuration is either adjusted correctly to the character set encoding standard and/or it correctly interprets META information in the header of the HTML document (so it switches to the correct font).

See also

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Acknowledgments

I am grateful to Primoz Peterlin for giving me prompt and valuable suggestions while I was compiling the material for these pages in 1996. I also acknowledge the help of Andrej Brodnik, who brought the 'Latin2-Problem' to my attention. For more information on them, as well as others who influenced these pages, see more acknowledgments.

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Created: 1998-02-13 Modified: 2002-12-08