Accented Letters

[ugly-boy.livejournal.com]

I know they aren't actually used in Russian, but a lot of teach-yourself books use acute accents to show stress on a word. Does anyone know how to type Cyrillic vowels with accents? I can type the ones that are the same as English vowels — á, é, í [Belarusian и], ó — but what about и, у, ы, я, э, ё, ю?

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[corriel.livejournal.com]

The letter "ё" is always accented, thus an accent is not necessary.

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[ugly-boy.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[oblomov-jerusal.livejournal.com]

Actually, accents are used in Russian to mark stress not just in textbooks, but also where it removes possible ambiguity, in books for small children, in rare words that reader might not know how to pronounce etc.

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[ugly-boy.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[yers.livejournal.com]

accented Russian letters aren't included in any standard windows font, which is stupid
sometimes you really need one, the most frequent case is большая/большая (first one meaning "big", second "bigger")
in such cases we usually capitalise the accented vowel, like бОльшая

there's a bunch of Russia-made all-Cyrillic fonts, mostly used in desktop publishing, that have all the accented characters. I don't remember the names though.

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[ugly-boy.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I think I have some all-Cyrillic fonts on my computer, but I don't know. For those the two you wrote, if you were so inclined, you could use the Roman character set: большáя/бóльшая. But computers actually read those as different letters... WHich is odd to me.