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Re: OT: Russian in ASCII?

From:Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...>
Date:Wednesday, December 31, 2003, 15:40
Alexander Savenkov scripsit:

> 2003-12-30T22:11:33Z Jean-Francois Colson wrote: > > > Is there an official system of transliteration/transcription of Russian into > > the Latin alphabet, I mean a system used internationally and/or approved by > > the Russian government or by scholars? > > Sure there is. It's called GOST 7.79-2000 or ISO 9:1995. > The 7.79-2000 standard replaced the 16876-71 standard in January 2002 > (the second table of the 16876-71 std. is identical to 7.79-2000).
Thank you for the wonderful piece of information.
> I'm not sure it's a good idea to use the LoC or PUL system: they both > use non-ASCII characters.
Yep. LoC is known only to its authors... :)
> Furthemore, I'm not sure it's a good idea to use the above mentioned > GOST. I can't speak for all the people but it seems *to me* that the > standard is not in the wide use.
Yep-yep. Most of the official stuff produced in post-Soviet space is stupid.
> Here's the system which is used daily in Russia: > > a b v g d e yo zh z i y k l m n o p r s t u f kh ts ch sh sch ' y ' e yu ya
It looks suspiciously close to the system used in road signs according to GOST 10708-81. As for me, I use it daily, and recommend to my students.
> No one writes Jel'cin btw. You can see Eltzin or Eltsin > in the newspapaers depending on the language.
Or Yeltzin.
> Alexander Savenkov
Welcome to the List, btw. Russian speakers are rare birds here. -- Isaac Penzev (aka Yitzik), a linguist from Kiev

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