Editing Cyrillic in html

[Sapief]

Hello.  The HTML Editor "HotDog Pro" will allow you to create cyrillic
HTML files in either KOI8 or CP1251 format.

Filipp Sapienza
Doctoral Candidate
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
sapief at rpi.edu
www.rpi.edu/~sapief



On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Slava Paperno wrote:

> Good news for people who make Web pages that contain Cyrillic.
>
> One of the problems when editing Cyrillic text in an HTML editor under
> Windows or Macintosh (such as MS Word with Internet Assistant, or Netscape
> Gold, or Netscape Composer, or all Macintosh editors that I've tried) is
> that Cyrillic letters are not saved properly. These editors call them
> "extended characters" and automatically convert them into the so-called
> "HTML entities," strings that begin with an ampersand. E.g., the capital
> letter B (second letter in the alphabet) is converted to this
> eight-character string: Á
>
> This causes two probems: 1) your files and Web pages become eight times as
> large, 2) when you open your files in a text editor, you can't even read
> them, and so they become useless for any other purpose.
>
> I've now found an HTML editor that will not mangle your files in this way.
> It even has a menu command that converts all &-strings back to Cyrillic, so
> if you have any mangled files, you can now restore them.
>
> The editor is called Homesite 3.0, and you can download an evaluation
> version from:
>
> http://www.allaire.com/
>
> (No, I'm not a salesman for Allaire, I'm just another user.)
>
> Slava
>