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Cyrillic Extended-C

All code points in the Cyrillic Extended-C block.

U+1C80
U+1C81
U+1C83
U+1C84
U+1C85
U+1C86
U+1C87
U+1C88

Tips

  • Ensure font fallbacks cover Cyrillic Extended-C glyphs to avoid missing characters.
  • Validate input and rendering across OSes to catch emoji-like substitutions or glyph gaps.
  • Use semantic naming in UI to express that characters come from Cyrillic Extended-C, not standard Cyrillic.
  • Document any platform-specific quirks in design notes for consistent UX.
  • Provide accessibility labels for screen readers describing the script and its extension.

Cyrillic Extended-C covers a range of Cyrillic characters used in specialized orthographies and historic texts. It is one piece of a larger Cyrillic family that designers and developers reference when supporting diverse languages. In practice, you’ll often map these code points to fonts that include extended glyphs and to fallback systems that gracefully degrade when a glyph is missing.

Typical usage includes font testing, typography work, and font-subset decisions for multilingual interfaces. Pitfalls include inconsistent glyph rendering, missing fallback fonts, and confusion about which characters are included in this block. For context, this category sits alongside other symbol and script blocks that collectively enable accurate display of non-Latin scripts. For related ideas, see Geometric Shapes, Arrows, Currency Symbols, and Box Drawing as adjacent blocks in typography resources.