2026-04-20 15:37 UTC
@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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@hipsterelectron@circumstances.run 2026-04-20 15:49
@boo_ @aartaka @khinsen i'm more concerned about the latin/english-centrism of unicode and its notion of variants particularly as it relates to han unification and the utf-8 encoding https://codeberg.org/cosmicexplorer/corporeal but it appears that angle was wrong to apply in this instance