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From: Victor Nazarov <vir@com...>
Subject: combining characters
Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 00:15:31 +0400

Dan Cross wrote:

>On Fri May 19 19:45:43 CDT 2006, rvs@sun.com wrote:
>  
>
>>  There's no such thing as an accented letter in a Russian language.
>>  That was the exact point of my initial remark.
>>    
>>
>
>This is true, at least for Cyrillics, but there are stress marks which, to
>beginners in the language, are invaluable aids for sounding out the correct
>pronunciation of words.  Typically, adult Russian isn't written with the
>accent marks, though.  But children's books and textbooks for foreigners are.
>
>	- Dan C.
>  
>
Totaly agree with you. I'm a native russian speaker and I saw some books 
in russian wich use accents to overcome ambiguity and this usage seems 
elegant. But I need to say that accented texts seems very unusual at first.
--
Victor Nazarov