mixed fonts & keyboards

[Paul B. Gallagher]

Steven Hill wrote:

> 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...?
> _ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
>
> *** 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.

It's not a keyboard issue, it's an encoding issue. If you take the word
"яхмелю" in KOI8-R and display it as Windows 1251, it comes out as "синема."

--
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--
Paul B. Gallagher
pbg translations, inc.
"Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
http://pbg-translations.com

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