encoding

[Paul B. Gallagher]

Elena Boudovskaia wrote:

> To those who can read e-mail in Russian: what do you need to install
> to read all the encodings? I have Outlook Express with the encodings
> Cyrillic Windows, Cyrillic ISO, Cyrillic KOI8-R and Cyrillic KOI8-U,
> and I can read most of the mail. Sometimes, however, an incoming
> e-mail consists of series of question marks, and then I cannot read
> it in any of the encodings. Some of my students complain that my
> Russian e-mails look like question marks too. What could the matter
> be, and how can I fix it?

If the Cyrillic has all turned to question marks, the problem is not at
your end and you can't do a thing to fix it. The sender has chosen a
seven-bit encoding and will have to resend with an eight-bit encoding.

--
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
--
Paul B. Gallagher
pbg translations, inc.
"Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
http://pbg-translations.com

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