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Russian alphabet used in foreign websites. Latin or transliteration into Cyrillic?
Thread poster: Paulichi80
Paulichi80
Paulichi80
United Kingdom
Local time: 13:45
Jan 17, 2013

Hi there,

We are developing a software to be used for Russian transcriptions and I have been asked to determine what set of characters the software should include.

Apart from all the Cyrillic characters, numbers and typical characters like @, $ etc, I was wondering how Russian people write foreign websites? Do they write them:
a) with Latin characters -yahoo.com-
b) or do they transliterate them into Cyrillic alphabet -яху.ком-

And if th... See more
Hi there,

We are developing a software to be used for Russian transcriptions and I have been asked to determine what set of characters the software should include.

Apart from all the Cyrillic characters, numbers and typical characters like @, $ etc, I was wondering how Russian people write foreign websites? Do they write them:
a) with Latin characters -yahoo.com-
b) or do they transliterate them into Cyrillic alphabet -яху.ком-

And if they use the option of Latin characters, how do they have to change the keyboard settings so as to allow characters such as x / h, etc?

Thanks a lot for your help.

Regards. ▲ Collapse
 
Nikolai Muraviev
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Russian Federation
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English to Russian
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HTH: Jan 17, 2013



a) with Latin characters -yahoo.com-



Option (a). Otherwise there is a risk to be misunderstood.
 
Svitlana Selyvanova
Svitlana Selyvanova
Russian to English
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Latin Jan 17, 2013

We use latin letters to write a domen name of a web site. I have never seen a web site name transliterated into Russian.
To type in latin alphabet, we just switch the keyboard to English:)
 
Paulichi80
Paulichi80
United Kingdom
Local time: 13:45
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спасибо Jan 17, 2013

Thanks Nikolai, then you have to jump between alphabets in Windows then?
 
Paulichi80
Paulichi80
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Local time: 13:45
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Thanks both Nikolai and Svetlana Jan 17, 2013

Cheers!
 
Sergei Leshchinsky
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Ukraine
Local time: 15:45
Member (2008)
English to Russian
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Yes. Jan 17, 2013

Paulichi80 wrote:
then you have to jump between alphabets in Windows then?

Yo can switch manually or use Punto Switcher (http://punto.yandex.ru/win/) to change keyboard layout on the fly as you type.
 
Yuri Dubrov
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Russian Federation
Local time: 15:45
English to Russian
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Some addition Jan 17, 2013

There are also .РФ domain names in Cyrrilic

This country code top level domain .РФ provides an opportunity to put down a Web site address not in the Latin script (for example, ejik.ru), but in Russian/Cyrrilic (for instance, ёжик.рф).
 
Paulichi80
Paulichi80
United Kingdom
Local time: 13:45
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спасибо Jan 17, 2013

Thanks everyone for your answers.
 


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