Thread: How to write cyrillic letters with acute-sign (for example: ходи́ть)

Is it just me that sees the accent mark in the wrong place (over the consonant) in all of these examples, e.g. бу́ду плати́ть?

It happens due to a bug in the font Verdana. The style sheet of this site specify this font as the best choice for a browser along with some other options like Tahoma, Calibri. It would be better, imho, to remove Verdana from the style sheet or put it after other fonts. I use Stylish extension for Firefox to overcome the bug.

Originally Posted by Полуношник

It happens due to a bug in the font Verdana. The style sheet of this site specify this font as the best choice for a browser along with some other options like Tahoma, Calibri. It would be better, imho, to remove Verdana from the style sheet or put it after other fonts. I use Stylish extension for Firefox to overcome the bug.

I don't have that problem at all (on this site), I'm using Google Chrome with Windows 7... though I do get that problem on some sites.

Originally Posted by chaika

Is it just me that sees the accent mark in the wrong place (over the consonant) in all of these examples, e.g. бу́ду плати́ть?

It depends on a font. Some fonts have the stress mark displaced. Verdana seems to work fine for me in Chrome.
BUT (!) if you consistently see the stress mark over the consonants you can adjust for the change and move them in your mind towards the closest right-hand vowel As you may know, consonants are never stressed.

Originally Posted by MasterAdmin

It depends on a font. Some fonts have the stress mark displaced. Verdana seems to work fine for me in Chrome.
BUT (!) if you consistently see the stress mark over the consonants you can adjust for the change and move them in your mind towards the closest right-hand vowel As you may know, consonants are never stressed.

The bug in Verdana is well known. It was fixed in Windows Vista. Chrome seems to have a work-around for the bug. It works in Ubuntu even with the old font.