Cyrillic headaches

[Steven Hill]

Dear Prof Woodsworth & colleagues,

In case no one has mentioned it in the latest discussions of
Cyrillic headaches:

A "quick & dirty" solution to these difficulties which Prof
Woodsworth & his correspondent have been experiencing is simply
to transliterate into the Latin alphabet (russkie slova i
slovosochetaniia latinskimi bykvami).  Not pretty, but in a
pinch it does get the job done, and fast, too...

-- Steven P Hill, University of Illinois.
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Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 15:23:02 -0400
From: "J.W." <vanya1v at YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Numerically encoded Cyrillic e-mails

Ottawa (Canada), Friday 20/5/05 14h55 EDT
Dear SEELANGers,

I'm having a problem reading incoming Cyrillic e-mails from one of my
correspondents.  In his recent e-mails each Russian letter is replaced
by "&#" followed by a number between 1040 and 1103 (inclusive).  I've
managed to figure out the code -- 1040 to 1071 represent capitals in
Cyrillic alphabetical order, while 1072 to 1103 represent lower-case
letters, respectively.  But decoding, especially of more than one or two
sentences, is a slow process indeed.

Questions: (a) Does anyone know why this problem might be happening in
my e-mail and is there anything either my correspondent or I can do
about it?  (b) Specifically, is there any kind of software available
that will change a numerically-encoded text into the corresponding
Cyrillic characters?  (Of course I could search and replace one letter
of the alphabet at a time, but that would take far too long -- perhaps
there is a device that will do this for all the letters at once?)

I'd be grateful for any help, either on or off list.

(Mr) J. Woodsworth
E-mail: vanya1v at yahoo.com


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