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"Hotmail.com might as well be Cyrillic". This is not a good comparison because Cyrillic (at least, the slavic version) has almost a one-to-one relation to its
by mirkules 12y ago
"Hotmail.com might as well be Cyrillic".
This is not a good comparison because Cyrillic (at least, the slavic version) has almost a one-to-one relation to its latin counterparts. Russian Cyrillic is a little more complex, with letter modifiers (like "soft sign" and "hard sign") while in other flavors like Serbian Cyrillics, those characteristics were built into the language.
Hotmail.com directly transliterated to Cyrillic would be: хотмаил.цом (h=х, i=и, l=л, c=ц and the rest are the same).
- zht 12y agoSo how many Americans would be able to type хотмаил.цом?
- mirkules 12y agoThe point is that there is a direct transliteration available between cyrillic and latin, and it's also not so culture-dependent as 617.cn is. You could trivially automate that process too.
- couchand 12y agoI thought the point was that it would be tough for an English speaker to find and enter the characters if they were Cyrillic. The transliteration only has to be done once when registering domains, so it doesn't seem like much of a burden.