Depending on what you consider everyday usage. Newspaper texts would be fine.
Literature and language scholars might require it.
However, every speaker of the language would understand the text without the accent
marks.
BTW. These accent marks are also used in the latin version of Serbian. Also, in these
languages, there are two more accent marks used - grave and acute.
V.
Martin Kotulla writes:
> Michael Everson wrote:
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> > At 12:14 +0200 2001-07-02, Martin Kotulla wrote:
> > >Can anyone give me some information on the Slovenian and Croat letters
> > >in the Unicode range U+0200 to U+0217?
> > >
> > >Which purpose do these characters have? At what point in time have they
> > >been in use?
> >
> > They are used to mark tone in linguistic discussion of traditional
> > poetic texts.
>
> Which means that a Croat/Slovenian typeface would be regarded "complete" for
> everyday use even without those characters. Right?
>
> -Martin
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