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Re: (IAAC) Obj: Basel 11B - Inst: 10" f/6 Newt



Sue & Alan French wrote:

> Barkhatova/Barhatova is really supposed to be in the Cyrillic alphabet
> - so what do you do?  Sue

Use standard transliteration rules.  According to such, 'Barkhatova' is
right, and 'Barhatova' is wrong.  'kh' is the standard English
transliteration of the letter in Cyrillic that looks like 'x', from the
Greek letter chi.  'h' is not a standard English transliteration of any
Cyrillic letter.

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