Hello,
2004-01-04T14:25:22Z Jean-Francois Colson <fa597525@...> wrote:
...snip
>> > If ever I use the ГОСТ 16876-71 transliteration system to write in
> Russian
>> > when I have no possibility to easily type the Cyrillic letters, could
> that
>> > pose some problems of reading to any Russian?
>>
>> I guess any transliteration system could pose some problems to most
>> Russians. The script is different and that is a problem. If ever I use
>> some Latin2Cyrillic transliteration system when I have no possibility
>> to easily type the Latin letters, could that pose some problems of
>> reading to any French? :)
> If ever you want to send an e-mail from a US cyber-cafe, I'm not sure you'll
> have the possibility to adapt the computer to your own needs installing a
> cyrillic keyboard driver.
True. I can also use the keyboards offered by the e-mail sites online.
...snip
> I repeat and I precise my question:
> If ever I use the ГОСТ 16876-71 transliteration system to write in
> Russian when I have no possibility to easily type the Cyrillic
> letters, could that pose some problems of reading to any Russian who
> knows the Latin script but not ГОСТ 16876-71?
Yes, it could. GOST 16876-71 is far less popular than GOST 10708-81.
Once again, use GOST 10708-81 when possible. I heard of no problems
associated with it.
>> 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
> OK. I'll adopt it with 4 minor changes in order to make the system
> unambiguous (to allow an automatic reverse transliteration once WinAmp --or
> another similar program-- will accept Unicode IDs).
> a b v g d ye yo zh z i y k l m n o p r s t u f kh ts ch sh sx " y ' e yu ya
(the diacritics are eaten by the mailing program)
There are six changes, not four. The solution is the most appropriate
one in your case. For any official projects it's better to use
the above mentioned official system.
--
Alexander Savenkov http://www.xmlhack.ru/
savenkov@xmlhack.ru http://www.xmlhack.ru/authors/croll/