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@aartaka@merveilles.town

2026-04-20 13:06 UTC

@hipsterelectron @khinsen I mean, Russian uses Cyrillic script, so Latin script things are mostly irrelevant. Yet, your point on software keyboards is extremely fair, because this codification of language makes bad things worse. To the point this hidden letter is not even known to be reachable for some.

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  • @boo_@im-in.space 2026-04-20 15:37

    @aartaka @hipsterelectron @khinsen I don't natively speak a language that uses the Cyrillic alphabet, but I have taken a course on Ukrainian and self-studied a tiny bit of Russian some years ago, and my impression is that there isn't a lot of latin/english-centrism impacting those keyboard layouts generally, but I might be wrong. It just seems like ё is a bit left out because people consider it the same as « е, » (and have for a long time) but it is reachable on the keyboards I've used, just often on the edge. It is a bit weird coming from Swedish though, because the difference is comparable to Swedish a, å, and ä / o and ö which are very different and it would feel strange if people mixed them up outside of contexts where only ASCII is allowed, for example. I like ё though. It's a pretty letter and umlauts are cool :ablobcatheartsqueeze:

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