Bug 75391 - abillity to mark stressed cyrillic chars (accent-bearing russian letter)
Summary: abillity to mark stressed cyrillic chars (accent-bearing russian letter)
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: kwordquiz
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Mandrake RPMs Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Peter Hedlund
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Reported: 2004-02-16 20:59 UTC by Helge Hielscher
Modified: 2005-01-18 00:40 UTC (History)
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Description Helge Hielscher 2004-02-16 20:59:20 UTC
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.2.0)
Installed from:    Mandrake RPMs

need to be able to mark cyrillic characters/syllables that are stressed. Good printed books use accents like in French, other use bold characters instead.
Comment 1 Peter Hedlund 2004-06-18 19:40:07 UTC
FlashKard has been replaced by KWordQuiz.
Comment 2 Helge Hielscher 2005-01-17 05:12:34 UTC
Now I found out that unicode contains a combining acute accent (U+0301), but it looks like not beeing supported by KDE/Qt yet.
Pasting the examples from http://www.hist.no/~hra/test/komb.html failed.
Comment 3 Thiago Macieira 2005-01-17 11:08:00 UTC
You mean like this "ви́"?

Works fine. I'd say WORKSFORME.
Comment 4 Helge Hielscher 2005-01-17 16:31:41 UTC
Thiago, what font are you using? Maybe I need a special font?
Comment 5 Rex Kerr 2005-01-17 18:27:47 UTC
Notice that the accent isn't over the character.  It was put it next to the character.  In my opinion, that's not what's needed.  What we need is a way to indicate the stressed sylable in any alphabet, without modifying the word.  Then add a feature in the testing to allow you to either ignore the additional notation, or test on it.

Then again, looks like this should all be moved to KWordQuiz now.
Comment 6 Helge Hielscher 2005-01-17 19:35:27 UTC
In the example webpage above the accents are over the char. Have a look at http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0300.pdf to see the (theoretical) possible combinations.
With the default fonts of Mandrake Linux Mozilla displayed the example almost right. Now I have installed Microsofts Corefonts and it works in KWordquiz with Arial (but not Arial Bold), Times and Verdana.
Now all I need to find is a keyboard layout that makes adding combining accents in cyrillic easy and works with kxkb.
(test: Ива́н Пётрович Павло́в)
Comment 7 Rex Kerr 2005-01-17 19:59:25 UTC
Interesting.... in some browsers  (Firefox) I see the accent next to the character, and in some I see it above the character.  I guess it does work.  I'll have to try it.
Comment 8 Thiago Macieira 2005-01-18 00:23:04 UTC
Should I mark this as WORKFORME?
Comment 9 Peter Hedlund 2005-01-18 00:40:24 UTC
As discussed this is a matter of selecting an appropriate font (and keyboard layout).