Keyboard shortcut to insert acute accent mark above Russian characters

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Keyboard shortcut to insert acute accent mark above Russian characters

Does anyone know how to insert the acute accent mark above the Russian alphabet characters? The Shift + Option + "E" key only seems to work for Latin characters, and I cannot find any way to get a proper acute accent inserted above the Russian vowels! (when I try to switch to the English keyboard and inserting it that way, it does simply places the acute symbol in the air and not over the preceeding character!) Even the "Character Viewer" does not seem to have all that would be needed. I seem to remember that in the past OS versions there was a way to accomplish this, but not now....

I would greatly appreciate any help with this!

Posted on Oct 10, 2013 7:36 AM

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etresoft

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Oct 10, 2013 7:49 AM in response to snow-man

Try using the new method. Switch to your Russian keyboard and hold down the e equivalent character. Hopefully it will pop-up a list of acceptable diacritics.

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Oct 10, 2013 8:00 AM in response to etresoft

No, this does not work. The only pop-up that I am getting is by holding the "e" which then gives me the option for the other consonant " ё ". A keyboard shortcut will certainly be the fastest in any event, though I would take anything for the moment!

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Tom Gewecke

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Oct 10, 2013 9:18 AM in response to snow-man

snow-man wrote:

Even the "Character Viewer" does not seem to have all that would be needed.

Yes, it does. Go to the gear wheel at the top left and select Customize, then check the box for Unicode, then in Unicode go to range 00000300 Combining Diacritic Marks and select 0301 Combining Acute. Drag/drop or double click after the base letter to add it to your Cyrillic. Я́

You may need to try different fonts to get the best display.

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etresoft

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Oct 10, 2013 11:12 AM in response to snow-man

snow-man wrote:

No, this does not work. The only pop-up that I am getting is by holding the "e" which then gives me the option for the other consonant " ё ".

That is what I thought you were looking for. Perhaps this merits some feedback to Apple about Russian accent marks.

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Tom Gewecke

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Oct 10, 2013 11:50 AM in response to etresoft

etresoft wrote:

Perhaps this merits some feedback to Apple about Russian accent marks.

I think the only use for accent marks in Russian is for pedagogical texts, to show proper word stress. I've never seen any keyboard layout which included this. Adding them is handled some other way.

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Tom Gewecke

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Oct 10, 2013 11:53 AM in response to snow-man

snow-man wrote:

A keyboard shortcut will certainly be the fastest in any event

It would be a few minutes work to create a custom Russian keyboard layout with a combining acute accent mark using

http://scripts.sil.org/ukelele

if you need to create a lot of text where word stress is indicated.

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Tom Gewecke

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Oct 10, 2013 12:19 PM in response to snow-man

snow-man wrote:

A keyboard shortcut

Another possibility: In system preferences/language & text/text/symbol and text substitution, set up a shortcut where some character you don't use much is substituted by Unicode 0301, the combining acute. Then every time you type that after a vowel, you should get the accented version when you type the next character.

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Oct 10, 2013 6:17 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

Thanks for the great answers! I am still working on trying to enable a keystroke combination as you suggested, (for some reason text replacement is not inserting the unicode action of "combine", but rather simply the shape in it's own space again). At least I can use the character viewer to do this, (it is not needed every day, but very frequently. I am a Russian Language student.) If I can get the "text substitution" working properly I will be happy, otherwise I will look into the "ukelele" option. Thanks so much for your good feedback in a timely manner!

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Tom Gewecke

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Oct 10, 2013 9:55 PM in response to snow-man

snow-man wrote:

for some reason text replacement is not inserting the unicode action of "combine", but rather simply the shape in it's own space again

Make sure you are typing your substitution after (not before) the letter you want the accent attached to.

When setting up the substitution, enter the Unicode character 0301 in the right box by double-clicking on it in the Character Viewer.

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