Why no Cyrillic?

[Christopher, Tim]

I am sure you guys know this......but..when I first started learning Russian, sometimes the emails would be garbled when I received them. I soon learned to use the "view" button on my browser and go to "encoding" and there I found different versions that would ungarble the email and it was then readable. The options under encoding were :
Cyrillic DOS
Cyrillic ISO
Cyrillic KOI8-R
Cyrillic KOI8-U
Cyrillic WINDOWS

One of these should encode the email properly. Hope that helps some.

Tim
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From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Susan Bauckus
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 11:16 AM
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Why no Cyrillic?

Cyrillic does not always travel well by email across platforms. For example, I just got a message from a Russian bookstore where I placed an order. It's all in Cyrillic, or at least that's what it was when they typed it. But it came to me in an unreadable form, so I don't have a clue when my books will arrive. from other platforms, Cyrillic works fine for me but might not for someone else. using transliteration is the only way you can make sure your message is readable and it's also a bibliographic convention.

Susie

> [Original Message]
> From: Jonathan Newton <jon at JNEWTON.NET>
> To: <SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu>
> Date: 2/4/2009 7:00:48 AM
> Subject: [SEELANGS] Why no Cyrillic?
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I just subscribed to this list and I've noticed that _most_ people do
> not use Cyrillic when typing Russian, is there a reason for this?
>
> - curious
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