how to send/receive email in cyrillic

[Donald Loewen]

One problem could be the various encoding options.  I think that KOI-8 is 
still quite popular in Russia, so people will need to have a program that 
can switch encoding.  I saw one there (something about a Bat, I think) that 
could switch a message's encoding from a right-click menu option, and then 
saved the setting (KOI-8, etc.) with the message.  Otherwise they can just 
cut and paste the text into a word processor like Word (that works better 
than WordPerfect, at least in my experiments) and switch the font.  Usually 
something will work.  It can also depend on the e-mail software. I'm using 
Eudora 5 and still have occasional problems with Cyrillic.  If I open the 
message in Outlook Express, it usually works better.  (As I re-read your 
message, I see that you aren't necessarily sending the messages to Russia, 
where people seem generally very capable in solving these 
problems.)  Another option: open the text in a browser (like Internet 
Explorer), where encoding switches are simple.
Good luck,
Don


At 01:37 PM 5/26/01, you wrote:
>thank you.
>
>i neglected to say that i am using PCs windows 98 and am sending to russians
>who are NOT on aol. nonetheless, they often can't read my emails. any clues.
>
>"Paul B. Gallagher" wrote:
>
> > baron chivrin wrote:
> >
> > > dear seelangers,
> > >
> > > when i send russian (cyrillic characters) email, it seems to work some
> > > of the time, but often the recipient can't read what i have written. i
> > > send it to myself as a test and it works fine. can someone help with the
> > > proper format/encoding?
> > >
> > > spasibo zaranee.
> > >
> > > ÓÐÁÓÉÂÏ ÚÁÒÁÎÅÅ. ÷Ù ÜÔÏ ÞÉÔÁÅÔÅ?
> >
> > Looks fine from here.
> >
> > You should be aware that AOL does not support Cyrillic, so nothing you
> > do will help with an AOL user. You have to send them attached files such
> > as Word or Excel, which they can then open outside of the AOL browser.
> >
> > --
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> > --
> > Paul B. Gallagher
> > pbg translations, inc.
> > "Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
> > http://pbg-translations.com
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