Re: OT: Russian in ASCII?

Jean-François Colson wrote:
>
> I've just got a snail mail from Russia.
> On the stamps, just below <  ССИЯ>, there's <ROSSIJA>
> with a <J>. Why isn't  that written with a <Y>?

I used to have a penpal in Russia about ten to twelve
years ago. All the stamps on letters he sent me had
<ROSSIJA> on them, so they've been doing this for
a while.

--Ph. D.