| ??? 03/29/06 11:03 Read: times |
#113351 - an interest fact Responding to: ???'s previous message |
hi,
First of all I think that the thread is ready to be moved into Chat Board, do you? Jan Waclawek said:
What's bad in common written (printed) russian for "reading" is, that you omit writing of the accent, and more confusingly, even the "double-dot" on "e" distinguishing "ye" from "yo"... The reader distinguishes it from context, but that means a huge dictionary when it comes to text-to-speech...
Some facts from my live. I was Admin of Russian division of ATO (Amiga Translators` Organization) till 2002 year. I did programm Russian language libraries and other language, country and keyboard support utilities for Amiga OS 3.5 and 3.9. And I say you: all russian charsets, codepages and fonts do support the letter "yo". We even did voting for this (= Now the history says that Russian Language has 33 letters while Bill Gates did limit the number of foreign sequent characters as 32 capital + 32 small per codepage table. He reserved characters with codes 0xC0...0xFF for national letters. As result, one of russian letters could not fit into his "rules". And letter "yo" which is very similar to "ye" graphicaly, has been moved to somewhere inside character set. Another side of histrory is that there are some character sets defined for Russian language: KOI-8 (Unix), CP1251 (Windows), 866 (MS-DOS), GOST (ISO8859-5). They all are not similar and require own support files (keymaps, fonts etc). There as same as above, 32 letters are placed sequentaly but "yo" somewhere. Even at keyboard, this letter is not in characters` field. Maybe from this some people do not use "yo" here. But now this letter comes back: I see it on papers, TV, streets. So you are welcome to St.Petersburg - now you do recognize words right without big dictionary (= Regards, Oleg |
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| Availability? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Ask | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| languages | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| I think so | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| letters and sounds | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| russian (slavic) are - relatively - easy | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| an interest fact | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
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| try feeding it "La Jolla" | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
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| a few points | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Cool, but good luck getting 'em | 01/01/70 00:00 |