The internet and Cyrillic

[Charles Mills]

Maybe this would make a good subject for a panel at AATSEEL next year:
Cyrillicization and browser woes...

(Genevra, you can avert your eyes)

"Paul B. Gallagher" wrote:

> I fiddled around with the settings for a bit, and I was able to send a
> Cyrillic message to myself, but the header specified the ISO-8859-1
> ("Western") character set, so Netscape could only read it after I
> clicked reply and selected a Cyrillic encoding for the Composition
> window, a major inconvenience.
>
>    Sidebar:
>    Eudora is not Unicode-aware, so it lists all fonts in single-
>    byte terms. Thus, Times New Roman is listed as "Times New
>    Roman Baltic," "Times New Roman Cyr," "Times New Roman Greek,"
>    etc. This means in principle that you can select these code
>    pages for display and sending, but in practice, since Eudora
>    marks all messages as ISO-8859-1 ("Western"), the recipient
>    must have a way to overrule its lie.

Etc. etc.

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