Re: OT: Russian in ASCII?

2004-01-05T15:01:46Z Jean-Francois  Colson <fa597525@...> wrote:

>> I *highly* recommend using the GOST 10708-81 (Road Signs) system
>> which I have posted here before and which was later corrected
>> by Isaac Pentzev:
>>
>> a b v g d e(ye) yo zh z i y k l m n o p r s t u f kh ts ch sh shch ' y ' e
> yu ya
> I've just got a snail mail from Russia.
> On the stamps, just below <РОССИЯ>, there's <ROSSIJA> with a <J>. Why isn't
> that written with a <Y>?
Who knows, mad people are everywhere! ;) I can't tell you this, I can
only guess they are using another GOST, or the person responsible for
this kind of things speaks German, or French, or...

I also have no idea why some road signs near Moscow have "Moskwa"
below the Russian text. *That* is really weird.

On the whole, everything is not that tangled.
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