To: CyrTeX-en@vsu.ru, lcs@topo.math.u-psud.fr, 
	maa@kilots.kiev.ua
Subject: Re: ASCII-Cyrillic, Ukranian style
Message-Id: <E13cQMX-0000zD-00@topo.math.u-psud.fr>
From: Laurent Siebenmann <lcs@topo.math.u-psud.fr>
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 12:47:25 +0200


Dear Malyarenko!

Thanks for a most helpful reply.

 > After obtaining independence in 1991, Ukrainian government returned
 > to the rules of 1928. In particular, the letter ghe with upturn
 > is present in the alphabet. I use it in my mathematical papers.

That is very easy to handle:-  gup  is the agreed LaTeX tag and 
'g is the obvious choice for ASCII_Cyrillic.
(And similarly for uppercase.)

 > As you can see from the alphabet, Ukrainian language does not
 > contain hard sign. An ordinary apostrophe (') is widely used
 > instead.

Is that apostrophe "compulsory"="necessary"?  
For example,

         z[apostrophe][ya]suvav 

occurs in the Ukrainian Bible, but is 

            z[ya]suvav 

also correct??  (Ukrainian apostrophe is absent from
KOI8-RU but appeared in KOI8-UNI.)

     In the same vein, when a Russian name 
involving one of the 4 Russian characters 

        hardsign, ery, erev, yo 

occurs in a Ukrainian article, are the Russian letters
normally printed, or is everything expressed (transcribed)
using just the Ukrainian alphabet (with apostrophe)?

Obviously these questions are crucial for a Ukrainian
version of ASCII-Cyrillic.

Cheers

Laurent Siebenmann