translation of 2 chess references

E Wayles Browne ewb2 at CORNELL.EDU
Thu Jul 31 14:37:32 UTC 2008


Dear Deborah,
I suggested one method: copy the mysterious text and paste it
into a Google search window. Then hit Return. Sometimes
Google is able to detect the Cyrillic letters that are
hidden behind the botched encoding.
On the other hand, sometimes Google isn't. That was true
with the sample in your forward.
There is another method and it seems to work more reliably:
open the web page http://2cyr.com/decode/
(the Universal Cyrillic Decoder)
and paste the text in. I tried that with your sample and
it worked well. But if the text has been converted to
question marks somewhere along the way, it is lost forever.
Best,
-- 
Wayles Browne, Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
Morrill Hall 220, Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A.

tel. 607-255-0712 (o), 607-273-3009 (h)
fax 607-255-2044 (write FOR W. BROWNE)
e-mail ewb2 at cornell.edu


>
>   Periodically I receive Cyrillic text on the list that I am absolutely
> unable to read no matter what I change my encoding to - Unicode,
> Cyrillic Windows, or KOI8-U and -R; I have even tried Cyrillic ISO and
> Cyrillic DOS. It looks like capital letters, numbers, and equal signs
> scrunched together. I thought I remembered someone offering a method of
> converting using a copy and paste method, and would be very grateful to
> be reminded of how to do this.
>
>   Thanks in advance,
>   Deborah
>
>
...
> "... =D1=81=D0=BD=D0=B0=D1=87=D0=B0=D0=BB=D0=B0 =D0=BE=D0=BD=D0=B8 =
> =D0=BD=D0=B5=D0=BC=D0=BD=D0=BE=D0=B3=D0=BE =
> =D0=BF=D0=BE=D1=86=D0=B0=D0=BF=D0=B0=D0=BB=D0=B8=D1=81=D1=8C, =
> =D0=BF=D0=BE=D1=81=D0=BA=D0=BE=D0=BB=D1=8C=D0=BA=D1=83 =
> =D0=94=D1=83=D1=88=D0=BA=D0=B8=D0=BD =D0=B8 =
> =D0=A4=D0=BE=D0=BD=D0=B4=D0=B5=D1=80=D0=B2=D1=8F=D0=BA=D0=B8=D0=BD=D1=83
> =
> =D0=BE=D0=B1=D1=8A=D1=8F=D0=B2=D0=B8=D0=BB =D0=BE =
> =D1=81=D0=B2=D0=BE=D0=B8=D1=85 =
> =D0=BF=D1=80=D0=B5=D1=82=D0=B5=D0=BD=D0=B7=D0=B8=D1=8F=D1=85 =
> =D0=BD=D0=B0 =
> =D0=BE=D1=81=D0=B2=D0=BE=D0=B1=D0=BE=D0=B4=D0=B8=D0=B2=D1=88=D1=83=D1=8E=D1=
> =81=D1=8F =D0=B6=D0=B8=D0=BB=D0=BF=D0=BB=D0=BE=D1=89=D0=B0=D0=BB=D1=8C,
> =
> =D0=BD=D0=BE =D1=81=D0=BB=D0=BE=D0=B2=D0=BE =D0=B7=D0=B0 =
> =D1=81=D0=BB=D0=BE=D0=B2=D0=BE, =D0=BE=D0=BD=D0=B8 =
> =D0=B4=D0=BE=D0=B3=D0=BE=D0=B2=D0=BE=D1=80=D0=B8=D0=BB=D0=B8=D1=81=D1=8C
>
>

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