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Re: TECH: Cyrillics (was: Russian, anyone?)

From:Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...>
Date:Friday, April 25, 2003, 7:05
Amanda Babcock gir'hti:

> It's just that I receive the email correctly, but my mailreader "mutt" > insists on putting up on my screen "Vsi horoso" instead of "Всё > хорошо". It has some transliteration table which converts > each KOI-8R letter into a regular ASCII letter, obviously doubling some > up along the way.
Good heaven! I can't believe it! How i hate those servile commodities some programs bring us! Surely there must be a way to switch this stupidity off...
> > > Амэнда > > > > I used to see this name in Russian spelt like "Аманда" most times... > > > My Russian teacher believed it should be written according to
pronunciation,
> which is with the American /{/ (X-SAMPA) which sounds most like the
Russian
> э.
Umh. Let it be so... Yitzik