Re: OT: Russian in ASCII?

>
> > 3. The three I-ish vowels.  How do you represent short i
> > and yeru? Usually <j> and <y> are chosen, but you
> > have to avoid ambiguity with palatalization.
> >
> Short <i> is written as <i>, long <i> is written as <í> (if there is
> /i:/ at all), and yeru is written <y>. (Because /j/ is written <j>,
> there is no ambiguity.)
>
> How does that sound?
It would be more in the spirit of the original Russian orthography to
mark short i as short, probably with a breve.  Apart from that, works
for me.

>
> --Robert