Re: OT: Russian in ASCII?

JFC> The spelling Eltsin is quite popular in French.

CG> I've only ever seen "Eltsine", just like "Staline" and "Lénine".

That makes more sense, considering that <-sin> would come out something
like [-sE~]; [sin] is closer to the Russian.

But tt seems odd to me not to include some representation of the initial [j].
The fact that it's implicit in the Russian vowel doesn't mean that you
should leave it off in languages whose <e> has no such implication. :)

-Mark

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