multilingual computing: request for non-expert comments -- correction

[Kirill Sereda]

Dear Kevin, 

Thank you for an interesting and informative article! There are a couple of
issues I'd like to point out to help improve it.

(1) On Page 2 the text says: "The Latin character B is not the same as the
Cyrillic character V".  There appears to be no Cyrillic character V, but
there is one that looks like B, right, so it probably should read "The Latin
character V is not the same as the Cyrillic character B"

(2) On Page 11, in Question 8, it says: "Even if your documents are not
intended for the Web, many programs poorly handle precomposed characters, as
explained in question #7 above; therefore, you will probably find it easier
to work with precomposed characters."

Since question #7 mentions being unhappy about the way some programs render
composite characters, perhaps you meant to say: "Even if your documents are
not intended for the Web, many programs poorly handle composite characters,
as explained in question #7 above;..."

Also, as a user of a homophonic keyboard layout for Russian, I don't find
typing on it that much slower than on a genuine Russian one.

HTH,

Kirill Sereda

PS. Cf. the use of "comprehensible"/comprehensive on page 18.


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# corrected URL #

A revised preprint of "Frequently Asked Questions and Selected Resources on
Cyrillic Multilingual Computing," to be published in "Virtual Slavica:
Digital Archives, Digital Libraries" (Vol. 6, No. 2/3 of Slavic and East
European Information Resources) is now available at:

http://www.umich.edu/~kshawkin/preprints/20040925.pdf

Please refer to this rather than my earlier version if you are consulting
this article for information.  In addition to completing the text, I
corrected a few factual errors and made recommendations clearer.

Comments are of course still welcome.

Kevin

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