Re: OT: Russian in ASCII?

Andreas Johansson wrote:


> Quoting Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...>:
>
> > Or Yeltzin.
Sorry. That was a typo. Surely it must be _Yeltsin_.

> Where does the habit of representing /ts/ in Russian (and Hebrew) as |tz| come
> from? German influence?
I've never seen it in Russian. As for Hebrew (and Yiddish: see my nick below),
|tz| has definitely a German origin (IMVHO).

-- Yitzik

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