ANNOUNCEMENT: Cyrillic Language Kit for Apple Macintosh!

[Max Pyziur]

>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.

MIME has been also developed to handle this and the sending of other types
of files via email.  Though not in universal use, it is gaining rapid
acceptance.

>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)

These settings are not available on the shareware versions for Windows; the
only things under Special/Settings/Attachments are:
Encoding method:
        MIME
        Binhex (in the form of radio buttons)
and
        Put text attachments in the body of the message (as a checkbox)

and
        a specification for a default directory for attachments to reside.

>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

If the sender and receiver have MIME enabled email then it doesn't really
matter which Cyrillic coding you use.

>compose email this way...  For other encoding schemes, you'd have
>to "uuencode" the document first...

In all of this there is still a problem with sending email in Cyrillic from
Windows-based Eudora (MIME encoding set) to someone with a Mac-based version
of Eudora.  Howcum?


>                                Cheers,
>
>
>                                Bohdan

Max
pyz at panix.com