Re: Latin digraph characters (was: Re: Klingon silliness)

From: Pierpaolo BERNARDI (bernardp@cli.di.unipi.it)
Date: Tue Feb 27 2001 - 16:58:01 EST


On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 DougEwell2@cs.com 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;

These are *English* translitterations. In the *Russian*
translitteration SHCH is a digraph, the other characters you mention are
single letters (C, S, Z, with hacek).

Germans transliterate a single cyrillic letter with TSCH, shouldn't
Unicode have also this tetragraph encoded? (ducking...)

P.



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