e-mail in Cyrillic

[Alexandra N. Leontieva]

Hello,

KOI-8 is the basic e-mail format used for Russian e-mails and newsgroups.
Still, illegible messages do arrive. When all else fails, I use Artemii
Lebedev's e-mail decoder:

http://www.design.ru/free/decoder/

Just copy the illegible text, paste it in the window, and press "Decode."

Sending an attached document in Word, or, even better, RTF-format, seems to
work most of the time (RTF being cross-platform).

Outlook Express might not be the best e-mail software program, but it works
best on my Mac. Forwarding unreadable messages that have already been
opened, to another e-mail address of the hotmail.com type, has failed a few
times in my case.

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Alexandra N. Leontieva
Research Fellow, Dept. of Russian Studies
University of Bergen Norway

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