Cyrillic

The term Cyrillic encompasses many families of character sets used in Eastern Europe. The name is attributed to St. Cyril, although others were instrumental in standardizing various character sets called Cyrillic. We are here concerned with Russian, and that is what this page covers. I have included links to other sites to fill in the blanks.

Since I am now using WindowsXP (It is better than ME, anyway!), I do not suffer the many ills people do when trying to communicate with disparate character sets. I do just fine using the Windows application, Character Map to provide my keyboard functions. I am writing some code to make the process easier, but it is not convenient at this time.

Russian can be transliterated (much in the same manner as Japanese, for example), or romanized. This process attempts to spell a word phonetically using the familiar character set in an attempt to avoid the tedium associated with doing it the "normal" way. In this manner a student that speaks English can "get around" the character set "problem."