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Re: OT: Russian in ASCII?

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Thursday, January 1, 2004, 19:37
Well, I wasn't looking for a solution; there are several out there.
Just explaining the issues.  But since you made a proposal:

On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 02:10:37PM -0500, Robert Jung wrote:
> Only explicit, real palatization is marked; it is marked with <j>.
Both implicit and explicit palatalization are real. In your description you refer to using <je> to indicate palatalizing <e>; that's explicitly marking implicit palatalization. Explicit palatalization uses the soft sign; how do you represent that?
> Short <i> is written as <i>, long <i> is written as <i>
So you don't distinguish between them? -Mark