ANNOUNCEMENT: Cyrillic Language Kit for Apple Macintosh!

[Bohdan Peter Rekshynskyj]

At 04:19 02.03.96, adassovsky wrote:
>>Pryvit -
>>
>>Hello, all!
>>
>>The Apple Cyrillic Language Kit is available!
>
>With this software, is it possible to send E-mail in cyrillic, to any
>recipient ? We all have a lot of fonts - that won't work for E-mail.
>vsevo khoroshogo.

Hi,

   Due to that nasty parity bit (the 8th one, or the 7th one depending
on how you count it), your cyrillic items get chopped off (since ASCII,
which we use here, only needs 7 bits for the representation).  The
Cyrillic encoding needs all 8.  So, programs have been developed to
work around this, most notably "uuencode/decode" on the Unix platform.

There are versions for both the Macintosh and PC.

To make life simple and easy, download an evaluation copy of Eudora
(available for both platforms - I highly recommend purchasing the
commercial version - the filtering capabilites alone are worth it).
Check the "settings" under the "special" menu - look for "attachments"
and set to "uuencode data fork".
(ftp.qualcomm.com)

This is only good for attached documents, prepared in Word Perfect
or other word processors...

You would use KOI font to get around the chopping problem...  and
compose email this way...  For other encoding schemes, you'd have
to "uuencode" the document first...

                                Cheers,


                                Bohdan