To: CyrTeX-en@vsu.ru, lcs@topo.math.u-psud.fr
Subject: Re: ASCII-Cyrillic Ukrainian style
Message-Id: <E13hkz6-0000hE-00@topo.math.u-psud.fr>
From: Laurent Siebenmann <lcs@topo.math.u-psud.fr>
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 05:49:16 +0200


Greetings Maksym Polyakov, and others

You wrote

 > cyrillic letters were damaged in your message
 > despite my mail system know how treat cyrillics

Yes, I was afraid they would be. That is of course one
"raison d'^etre" for  email-ru.tex.  Unfortunately
email-ru.tex is not (yet?) ideal for presenting its own
documentation -- in which a modicum of Cyrillic characters
should appear.

 > Probably I was wrong about Byelorussian, 
 > I know that in most cases \cyrg prononced like in
 > Ukrainian, I do not know wether hard g exists.

Could anyone on the list clarify this?  I have never
seen \CYRGUP designated as Byelorussian and the ordered
listing of the Byelorussian alphabet has not yet come
to my attention.

Question: I have seen in Ukrainian cp1251 8-bit text
the use of ASCII i for \cyrii even though \cyrii
in present in the cp1251 encoding.  The only explanation 
for this I can imagine is that these were typed 
using cp866 or KOI8alt which do not have \cyrii.
What other explanations could there be?

        Cordially,

              Laurent Siebenmann