mixed fonts & keyboards

Steven Hill s-hill4 at UIUC.EDU
Tue Jun 21 11:35:24 UTC 2005


Dear colleagues:

What sort of arrangement of keys on a Cyrillic keyboard would produce the curious 
6-letter Cyrillic (Russian)  word  " ЯХМЕЛЮ "  [ my transliteration: "YAKHMELYU" ] ?  

That is, when Internet Movie Data-Base received the above film data,*** the Russian 
title emerged in IMDB's Cyrillic font as the nonsensical "YAKHMELYU" , which suggests 
the sender must have been using some totally different  arrangement of Cyrillic keys 
than IMDB uses...?
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*** On IMDB, "YAKHMELYU" is supposedly the Russian title for a Georgian film (directed 
by Liana Eliava, 1978),  a title rendered in some other lands as "Le cinema,"  "Sinema," 
etc.
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Gratefully,
Steven P Hill,
University of Illinois. 


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