While persuing a different subject, I come across the notion that in late-1930ies Karelian cyrillic orthography (or at least in one of its versions), the equivalent of latin "jä" is rendered as an umlauted U+044F.
This makes sence considering the political linguistical goals of the successive cyrillization policies of 1935-1940 in the Soviet Union, centered on some degree of russification of all orthographies. (A very high such degree in Karelian, BTW!) Unicode includes pre-composed ciryllic "ä" and "ö" (U+04D2 / U+04D3 and U+04E6 / U+04E7), used also in this Karelian cyrillic orthography -- though seems to lack a precomposed umlauted U+044F. No problem, of course, even if I suspect that most browsers will make a mess of the я̈-sequence I plan to soon add to a page about Karelian flags I edit, at < http://www.flagspot.net/flag/su-rukr.html >. (I wander what they ever did to cyrillize "jö"... If "jo" becomes U+0451, then perhaps "jö" analogously becomes umlauted U+0451 -- i.e., an U+0435 with a 2x2 block of dots above it... Hm, will search and report.) -- ____. António MARTINS-Tuválkin | ()| <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |####| R. Laureano de Oliveira, 64 r/c esq. | PT-1885-050 MOSCAVIDE (LRS) Não me invejo de quem tem | +351 917 511 549 carros, parelhas e montes | http://www.tuvalkin.web.pt/bandeira/ só me invejo de quem bebe | http://pagina.de/bandeiras/ a água em todas as fontes |
