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Re:Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English by sk0g on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @08:58PM (#36235801)
> уіþ Was the thorn really a part of old Cyrillic? Would make some sense given the shared history, but still.

> И I struggled for a bit with this one, but I don't know of a better way to represent it other then "ai" in Cyrillic I guess.

The "ѵ" is interesting too, never seen that before since you can make do with the sorta B-looking letter instead.

Re:Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English by drdaeman on Thursday June 08, 2023 @01:23AM (#36237574)
> Was the thorn really a part of old Cyrillic?

No, never was a thing. Early Cyrillic had a bunch of unique letters that are long gone, but it never had "þ" in there.

> The "ѵ" is interesting too

It's from Greek "Y" (upsilon) and it - depending on the place - could've meant either /i/ or /v/ sound (and /u/ when in "оѵ" digraph, so parent comment has it wrong): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izhitsa

Re:Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English by b4dot on Thursday June 08, 2023 @02:51AM (#36238182)
There're several mistakes:

- instead þ could be used ѳ;

- с in тектс is missed, it should be текстс or better теѯтс;

- ѵ is basically Greek upsilon which appeared in English mostly as u [auto] or y [system], therefore шѵд would be better written as шоѵд where /oѵ/ in old Cyrillic pronounsed as /u/ as in Greek, or just шꙋд;

- дж in лангѵадж could be writtend as џ;

And so on.

Re:Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English by tazjin on Thursday June 08, 2023 @04:37AM (#36238900)
Thanks, these are good. I took inspiration from this horrible PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/14YgpdJ-k5M-GiwRDblvnEtsFvok...