Comment 18 for bug 1131890

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In , Nicolas (nicolas-redhat-bugs) wrote :

(In reply to Denis Jacquerye from comment #3)
> (In reply to Nicolas Mailhot from comment #1)
> > While this is a problem that should be fixed, stress is by and large not
> > indicated in written Russian/Ukrainian. The only books where it is
> > explicitly stated are dictionaries and teaching materials for western
> > students (for native speakers it is so natural it does not need indication).
> >
> > So working diacritics on Cyrillic letters has about the same priority as
> > working phonetic notation in Latin text.
>
> The Russian and Ukrainian and other Slavic language Wikipedias use the
> stress marks in a lot of articles on the first occurrence of an entry word.

Right, they are giving the phonetics like a dictionnary