deciphering "???"

[Susan Scotto]

Greetings, Seelangers -

My Russian friends and colleagues tell me that undecipherable Cyrillic on our
end is a result of encoding incompatibilities.  To solve this problem,
whenever I receive a message in which the Cyrillic comes up as undecipherable,
I go to "View" on my taskbar.  There, I select "Encoding" and try each of the
Cyrillic options until I get the one that corresponds to the encoding of the
original message.  On my college account, this works for me most of the time.
When it doesn't, I forward the message to my Yahoo account and go through the
same procedure until I find the one that corresponds to the sender's encoding
(which, I understand, the sender has no way of controlling from his end.)

Susan Scotto

Quoting "Paul B. Gallagher" <paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM>:

> James Driscoll (o'drisceoil) wrote:
>
> > Dear Steven,
> >
> > My mail client does not render Cyrillic either.  What works for me is to
> > use the "send message to browser" feature.  This sends the message to
> > Internet Explorer which renders the note in both alphabets.
>
> It never ceases to amaze me how Slavicists can operate in the modern day
> with programs that don't support Cyrillic or whatever character sets are
> used in their favorite languages. There are many good options available
> for nothing or next to nothing, and they're not hard to find or learn.
> (I learned to touch type in Russian in several months when I was already
> in my 40s)
>
> It's like a steel mill operator who doesn't have a rail spur, so he
> requires all suppliers to send materials by truck.
>
> (still shaking my head after all these years...)
>
> --
> 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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