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Re:Unicode Proposal – Textile Care Symbols by grishka on Thursday April 22, 2021 @07:58AM (#26901728)
This whole "is it Cyrillic or Latin" confusion sometimes does happen IRL. There's an insurance company that has its logo in all capitals: PECO. For most of my life I've always read it as Latin. But at some point I heard it in a TV commercial and they said it as "reso". Yikes.

Also РОСНАНО. It's not "pochaho", it's "rosnano".

The reverse is also true: there's a "Bona Capona" restaurant but its logo uses a typeface that makes it tempting to read it as "Vopa Saropa".

Re:Unicode Proposal – Textile Care Symbols by aasasd on Thursday April 22, 2021 @05:24PM (#26908394)
Well thankfully the rest of the world aren't subjected to the Cyrillic-Latin confusion, because it's only inside the country that Russian companies use the mix of Cyrillic and Latin... And specifically English, while a lot of people over twenty-five can't pronounce or read English.
Re:Unicode Proposal – Textile Care Symbols by grishka on Friday April 23, 2021 @01:02AM (#26911132)
I'm genuinely envious to people who can get by with just a single keyboard layout.
Re:Unicode Proposal – Textile Care Symbols by dmurray on Thursday April 22, 2021 @07:09PM (#26909230)
Anyone who needs to deal with the language formerly known as Serbo-Croat might disagree.
Re:Unicode Proposal – Textile Care Symbols by aasasd on Thursday April 22, 2021 @07:56PM (#26909552)
Ah, well, I should've written ‘Russian-Latin confusion’—forgot about the alphabet changeovers. But at least I'm told that:

> It can be written in Serbian Cyrillic or Gaj's Latin alphabet, whose thirty letters mutually map one-to-one, and the orthography is highly phonemic in all standards.

Though digraphs spoil the clarity somewhat.

Which reminded me that I should check what Kazakhstan is doing to its language. They seem to at least have avoided the eldritch monstrosity of Polish with ‘Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz’ and the like (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfKZclMWS1U). But they are still setting themselves up for English-language people pretending they can pronounce anything Latin-looking—despite English itself demanding you memorize the dictionary twice, for speaking and writing. So Kazakhstan will soon have its own great writer Karel Kaypek.