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>>O.k.,  I'll have to accept that in this case (especially
if it comes >>from a Frenchman ;-). But what about Yuri
Gargarin whose >>Intial is Yu. not Y., or Maks Yakovlevich
Rudkevich = M. Ya. >>Rudkevich, not M. Y.!  Any ideas?

I noticed a lot of responses concerning initials with
French names, but none concerning Russian names. Perhaps
with good reason, for I don't see a good way out. I have a
library full of Russian author names; this is one of the
problems with using transliteration, i.e., using two
non-Latin letters to represent one Latin letter. As far as
I can tell, the best thing to do is avoid Russian initials
whenever possible (I use the author's full name setting,
and never the initials setting). If I know someone's name
is Yurii (also transliterated as Iurii, along with several
other "variants"), then that's what I write. I also skip
the patronymics unless they are absolutely necessary. Why
make more trouble for yourself than necessary?

I know this doesn't help much--maybe somebody else out
there has an idea.

Peter Weil
pweil@polisci.wisc.edu