need advice for web pages w/Netscape Composer

[Max Pyziur]

At 11:11 PM 6/25/98 EDT, Richard Robin wrote:
[much good and interesting information deleted for the sake of brevity]

>
>Instead key in this:
>
>validate ÐÒÅÄÌÏÖÅÎÉ\Ñ? [prelozheni\ja]
>
>When Java Script executes, the letter [ja] will show up normally on the
>screen.

The use of the '\' character before that of another one seems to be common
across scripting languages.  Basically its interpretation implies "use the
character which follows as a literal and not in its programing/meta form".  

I came across this same problem when I was implementing the Javascript/Perl
search engine on our website (a humble little selo some of you may know as
BRAMA - Gateway Ukraine located one hop of some major T1 at
http://www.brama.com/; somewhere near Exit 1 off of Interstate 70 in the
WashDC area for those of you not yet on the Info-Superhighway).  I wanted
to be sure and have it available in not only English but also in Ukrainian.

With all of the Ñ's bouncing around in the search database I went at this
Javascript problem on my own, spending hours until I resolved it.  Then I
discovered www.dejanews.com and saw that I could have used their search
facility to find my answer much more easily.

Anyway, I invite you to try our small but hopefully useful search engine at
our site and request any suggestions you might have.  Currently, it is only
functional with Netscape browsers ("Internet Exlorer who? ..., where's
Redmond???" ), but at some point in the future that should be remedied.

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>
>Best regards,
>Rich Robin
>
>
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>Richard Robin - http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~rrobin
>Chair, German and Slavic Dept.
>The George Washington University
>WASHINGTON, DC 20052
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