Re: OT: Russian in ASCII?

En réponse à Mark J. Reed :


>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. :)
We pronounce the name /El'tsin/, not */jEl'tsin/, so there's no having a 
representation of a sound which *is not there* (I did see "Yeltsine" at 
least once, but it's a rarity, and likely not to be understood). It's more 
a francification of the name rather than a representation of the actual 
Russian name.

Christophe Grandsire.

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