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Since we have a Soviet poster here, I thought this would be a good
opportunity to bring this up again:

My home computer displays the English alphabet as a 7x7 dot matrix,
which I belive is typical of computers and terminals:

  XXX    XXXXXX    XXXXX   XXXXXX   XXXXXXX
 XX XX   XX   XX  XX   XX  XX   XX  XX     
XX   XX  XX   XX  XX       XX   XX  XX     
XXXXXXX  XXXXX    XX       XX   XX  XXXXXX 
XX   XX  XX   XX  XX       XX   XX  XX     
XX   XX  XX   XX  XX   XX  XX   XX  XX     
XX   XX  XXXXXX    XXXXX   XXXXXX   XXXXXXX, etc.

I have tried to come up with a similar representation of the
Cyrillic alphabet, but it seems as though a great many characters
cannot be made.  E.g. the characters for "sh", "shch", and "ee" with
a circumflex(?).  However, it doesn't *seem* as though the Cyrillic
alphabet is significantly more complex than ours, and Soviet
computers must have *some* way of displaying them efficiently
and without extensive graphic capability, etc.

Any ideas on how it's done?  It's been a mystery to me.


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