Return-Path: Received: from video.uic.vsu.ru ([62.76.169.38] verified) by vsu.ru (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.3.1) with ESMTP id 1844902 for CyrTeX-en@vsu.ru; Fri, 01 Sep 2000 10:40:28 +0400 Sender: vvv@video.uic.vsu.ru To: (Cyrillic TeX Users Group) Subject: Re: ASCII-Cyrillic References: From: Vladimir Volovich Date: 01 Sep 2000 10:40:15 +0400 In-Reply-To: Laurent Siebenmann's message of "01 Sep 2000 10:15:38 +0400" Message-ID: Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii "LS" == Laurent Siebenmann writes: LS> Students of Russian are often hampered by the lack of a Russian LS> keyboard. And visitors from Russia to the West find themselves in LS> the same embarrassment. [...] LS> I am sure we all agree. ASCII-Cyrillic was devised to let me use LS> these perfected 8-bit systems even when hampered by lack of a LS> Russian keyboard. An alternative could be to use Emacs which provides cyrillic (and other) input methods for latin keyboards. E.g. typing latin letters one could enter cyrillic texts directly and then save them in any encoding (cp1251, koi8r, iso8859-5, utf-8, etc). Of course, cyrillic screen fonts should be installed, but this is usually easier than having a cyrillic keyboard. Best, v.