Jim Higson <> wrote:
> Русский - -
> Now, most browsers handle this fine,
Unfortunately this depends on what has been installed on the user's
system. Unfortunately, Windows systems are often shipped without
"internationalization support" pre-installed, and many users don't know
what to do. Most modern browsers handle it fine _if_ the font in use
contains Cyrillic letters. But this depends. There's not much you can do
about it, as an author.
> I[s] there
> a way I can give alternate latin-alphabet text, such as:
>
> Russkij (nearest equivalent)
>
> to be used when the browser can't handle the full version? Hopefully
> this can be done with some simple markup.
No, unfortunately not. It would be fine if there were - especially for
characters that are very rarely available in common fonts, such as
phonetic symbols.
There's _something_ you can do, though (in addition to the apparent
solution of putting a transliterated version in parentheses after the
text). You can use the title attribute to suggest a "tooltip":
<span lang="ru" title="Russkij (= Russian)"
>Русский</span>
(In the general case, transliteration of Russian is very problematic on
the Web, since so many conflicting transliteration systems exist. For
example, "russkij", "russkiy" and "russki" are all standard - by
different standards. But in this case, the reader probably gets the idea
anyway.)
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