> Both things feel very ugly. Both things ("multi-letter combinations" and "same letters to represent very different sound") are inevitable anyway -- with or w

> Both things feel very ugly. Both things ("multi-letter combinations" and "same letters to represent very different sound") are inevitable anyway -- with or without diacritic characters. After learning the language - I do not notice any of these two problems. But I struggle with switching between keyboard layouts multiple times every day: I frequently forget to switch between English and Russian and start typing in a wrong layout. If Russian used 26 letter latin alphabet - there would be no "layout switch" problem.