Poker Copilot in Russian and Handling Cyrillic

I think this is my favourite of all the Poker Copilot translations:

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To a non-Russian speaker, it looks so exotic with the Cyrillic alphabet.

Handling Russian took a bit of rework. All Cyrillic letters have to be replaced in a strings file with a bunch of unreadable codes. Humans write this:

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Java needs this:

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Fortunately I could automate the process with a block of Java code to download the translations from Google Docs and run each translation through “native2ascii”, a Java tool that converts from the readable format to the unreadable format:

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