Template:Script/Early Cyrillic/doc

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This template is intended to force Slavonic (Slavic) fonts, if installed, for display of text in the early Cyrillic alphabet (pre-Petrine reform). This should only be used to represent early Slavonic or Church Slavonic writing or type.

Summary

{{Slavonic|(language code=cu)|text*}}

Valid language codes

Old Church Slavonic cu or chu (default)

Church Slavonic cu or chu (default)

Old East Slavic orv

Slavic (generic) sla

Examples

{{Slavonic|аблъко}}

аблъко

{{Slavonic|orv|ночь}}

ночь

Unicode version 5.1 added support for many early Cyrillic characters in the Cyrillic Extended-A and B blocks. Support for these is limited, but they should work on a computer system with appropriate fonts installed.

These fonts have at least partial support for the new Cyrillic characters in Unicode 5.1:

• Resources at Obshtezhitie (Dilyana v 2.001, Lazov v 1.00, Menaion Medieval v 2.10)
• Code2000 version 1.17

After Unicode version 5.1, more and more early Cyrillic characters was introduced. The following link can get appropriate fonts have at least partial support for the new Cyrillic characters as in Unicode 9.0 and later:

• Resources at the Slavonic Computing Initiative of Ponomar project
• BukyVede version 2.002
• Kliment Std version 4.006
• RomanCyrillic Std version 5.002

• {{script}}