Cyrillic headaches

[Aizhan Mukanbetkalieva]

Dear colleagues,

If you haven't tried yet, usually on menu "View"- "Encoding" - one of
Cyrillic fonts works, but not all the time, unfortunately...I have a
different issue: even though I set up "Russian" everywhere on my computer, I
cannot type e-mails in Russian ( I get strange characters instead, even if I
copy and paste form Word), only Word documents and ICQ. If anyone could
suggest what to do, I would appreciate it very much.

Sincerely,

Aizhan Mukanbetkalieva
NY


>From: Steven Hill <s-hill4 at UIUC.EDU>
>Reply-To: Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list
><SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
>To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
>Subject: [SEELANGS] Cyrillic headaches
>Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 18:01:45 -0500
>
>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.
>__ __ __ __ _ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
>
>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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