From: Radovan Garabik (garabik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk)
Date: Fri May 20 2005 - 06:25:04 CDT
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 12:37:00PM +0100, Peter Kirk wrote:
> On 19/05/2005 07:50, Alexander Kh. wrote:
>
> >...
> >
> >>There is no 8-bit character set that supports both English and
> >>Russian; the standard Russian character sets don't support accented
> >>English characters. Besides which, it's rare that you have a large
> >>stream of "English" data without any Spanish, French or German. I'm
> >>sure Serbian, Ukranian and other odd letters slip into Russian text as
> >>names and other ways.
Well, not really. The standard way of doing things in the cyrillic world
seems to transliterate/transcribe into the local variant.
But yes, foreign (and archaic) letters do sometimes slip into Russian
text (though latin and greek letters are much more common)
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