Cyrillic database for Mac

[Robert Beard]

        Some time ago some of us wanted to discuss a political issue on
SEELANGS and were told that political discussions, not matter how many of
us were interested, were out of bounds on SEELANGS.  If that is true,
certainly uninformed diatribes against particular computer systems should
be saved for other places.

        Any Slavist thinking about investing in one system or another
should not be misled by Mr. Rekshynskyj's little diatribe.  I have used a
Mac in the office for 3 years and an PC at home for 8 years.  I have yet to
find anything a Mac can do that at PC cannot do, including all the things
Mr. Rekshynskyj claimed only the Mac can do.  Anyone about to purchase a
Mac should also remember that only PCs are used in the Slavic nations and
that only 20% of the computers in the US are Macs, virtually all at
universities.  More than 90% (Idon't know the exact figure) of the
computers around the world are PCs.  Anyone wishing a more objective
evaluation of the two types of computers might want to contact me; I would
be happy to share my experiences, positive and negative, on the two
systems.

        By the way, when I convert a PC font to a Mac, five characters are
misplaced. I have located 4 of them, but cannot find the correct position
for the "shch".  Does anyone know its decimal (or other) position in the
Mac font layout?

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