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From: haugj@pigs.UUCP (The Beach Bum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Russian word-processing
Summary: russian alphabet is the limiting factor
Message-ID: <403@pigs.UUCP>
Date: 13 Sep 88 14:27:13 GMT
References: <235@lafcol.UUCP>
Reply-To: haugj@pigs.UUCP (The Beach Bum)
Organization: The Big "D" Home for Wayward Hackers
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In article <235@lafcol.UUCP> buyskes@lafcol.UUCP (Steven Buyske) writes:
>	A friend of mine is a russian scholar and completely computer-
>ignorant.  (I myself am ibm pc -ignorant).  She is looking for a way to
>write russian exams and scholarly papers on a computer instead of her
>trusty manual typewriter.  Generally these things have a mixture of 
>roman and cyrillic (sp?) alphabets.

the russian alphabet is somewhat larger than the english alphabet.  it
contains (about) 32 characters, against our 26.  a good bet would be a
computer aimed at one of the european languages with a similiarly
large character set.  russian export restrictions will probably prevent
a system being sent from the u.s.s.r.  [ the microcomputer is not all
that widely used (nor anywhere near as powerful) inside the soviet
union. ]
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