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
----------------------------------------------------------- Character name explanation ----------------------------------------------------------- Character Name RFC-1345 S.Slavic name ----------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------
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.
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).
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.