Talk:Ćuk converter

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[edit] Strange naming

It is "Slobodan Cuk" on a dozen pages on the Caltech website, and "Slobodan Ćuk" on none of them. Google exact phrase search. Of the 40 pages on the Caltech website that you get by searching for "Ćuk", none of them are spelled that way, but rather all 40 of them are "Cuk". [1]

It is almost always "Cuk converter" rather than "Ćuk converter" in anything not connected to Wikipedia.

So why the screwy spelling here in the article and in the article's name? Gene Nygaard 04:32, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Because "Ćuk" is correct and "Cuk" is wrong. C and Ć are two different letters in Serbian, the mother tongue of Slobodan Ćuk. The reason Caltech spells "Cuk" is that, very simply put, Ć is not in US keyboards and English has a deplorable tradition of dropping accents from foreign words; until some years ago, it was even impossible to write it correctly as it was outside the Latin-1 codepage. Note, however, that Ć is no more a variation of C than G is. The accent is not optional. As far as we know, "Cuk" may be an insult in Serbian.

The same way, you usually read Hammarskjoeld or Schroeder instead of Hammarskjöld and Schröder, Niccolo Machiavelli instead of Niccolò, Aarhus instead of Århus and the list could go on forever. Gorbachev, Potemkin and Zhivago may be painfully tolerated as the original language was not in the Latin script and transcription is somewhat arbitrary (even if Gorbačëv, Potëmkin and Živago are better), but Serbian has both a Cyrillic and Latin script.

...And by the way your surname is spelt "Nygård" in current Norwegian :-)

(I notice now that you have a record of vandalizing articles by imposing incorrect spellings. Please stop. If mainstream media get it wrong, at least an encyclopedia with a world-wide scope should get it right) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 129.241.85.36 (talk) 17:32, 26 March 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Schematic not very clear

Could somebody check the schematic shown in figure 1. It looks like in both ON state and OFF state the switch is open. It might work if the switch is moved to the diode's place.

Well spotted! I've uploaded a corrected version of the file. CyrilB 22:10, 9 February 2007 (UTC)