> I don't think this alone will completely get rid of the hardcoded
> special cases though, because we have these two mappings which look
> like Latin but are in fact Cyrillic and I assume we need to keep them:
>
> ³ å
> £ Å
>
As a native Russian speaker I can explain why we need to keep this two rules.
'³' letter is not 'E' with some accent/diacritic sign, it is a separate letter
in russian alphabet. But a lot of newpapers, magazines and even books use 'å'
instead of '³' to simplify printing house work. Any Russian speaker doesn't make
a mistake while reading because '³' isn't frequent and anybody remembers the
right pronounce. Also, on russian keyboard '³' placed in inconvenient place (key
with ` or ~), so, many russian writer use 'å' instead of it to increase typing
speed.
Pls, do not remove at least this special case.
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