At 08:33 -0800 2001-02-27, [email protected] wrote:
>This has always puzzled me, because Cyrillic includes lots of other
>characters that transliterate to two or more Latin letters. CH, SH, SHCH,
>and ZH leap to mind; there may be more. What was the thought process behind
>providing these compatibility characters only for the Serbo-Croatian
>additions to Cyrillic, but not for the other Cyrillic characters?
It was politically motivated, to satisfy a voting NB.
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