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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