Volapuk encoding Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
Volapuk encoding (Russian: кодировка "воляпюк" (or "волапюк", kodirovka volapyuk)) is a slang term for rendering the letters of Cyrillic alphabet by the Latin ones.It has been in use since the early days of Internet to write e-mail messages and other texts in Russian in the cases when the support of Cyrillic fonts was limited: either the sender didn't have a keyboard with Cyrillic letters or the receiver was not necessarily expected to have Cyrillic screen fonts. In the early days the situation was aggravated by a number of mutually incompatible computer encodings for the Cyrillic alphabet, so that the sender and receiver were not guaranteed to have the same one. Also, the 7-bit character encoding of the early days was an additional upset.
Some Russian e-mail providers even included this encoding into the list of available options for the e-mails routed abroad, and their menu looked like, e.g.,
The name comes from the Volapuk constructed language, for two reasons. A Cyrillic text written in this way looks strange and often funny, just as a Volapuk text may appear. At the same time, the word "volapuk" itself sounds funny to Russian speakers, so the name stuck. It is worth pointing out here that Volapuk is based on an English vocabulary, but the resulting language is nothing like English.Volapuk is not exactly a transliteration. There are no "standardized" rules. For example, some would use the "unused" Latin letters X and Y for Cyrillic Ha and U that look the same. When written in a hurry, one may easily type, e.g., "P" instead of Er (R is normally expected). As a result, the text becomes even more funny and difficult to read.
Some consider it a kind of joke to systematically substitute Cyrillic letters by Latin ones that look the same, rather than sound the same. In certain cases it leads to collisions, e.g., in the case of P and R vs. Cyrillic Pe and Er.
The Latin letters that basically match the Cyrillic ones by look and sound are E, T, O, A, K, M, and sometimes C.
The Latin letters that only look the same are Y, P, H, X, B, and sometimes C.
Some tricks include 'b' for 'ь', the digraph 'b!' for 'Ы', and the trigraph '}|{' for 'Ж'.
Akin to leetspeak, Volapuk encoding enthusiasts sometimes use digits to convey similar cyrillic letters. (For example, '4' looks similar to 'Ч', cyrillic capital Che; '9' looks similar to 'Я', cyrillic capital Ya, and '3' is almost ideal for 'З', Ze (Cyrillic).)
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