Cyrillic & Netscape

[PC Wood]

One way to do Cyrillic

For a given Cyrillic code set, define a MIME type eg
         Application/x-cyrillic1     The "1" can be changed to other
numbers, etc for variant code sets
Define the document's standard extension eg     .cyr

Any document stored on a server with that extension wil be sent on
request of a Netscape user woth MIME Content-type set to
Application/x-cyrillic1

Now it arrives at the user's system,
    The Netscape client gets the Content-type and sees that it is an
x-cyrillic1 MIME type. It invokes the helper application "whatever
program" and handas it the xxxxx.cyr document. The application is
started and it displays your cyrillic.

At the user's end he must have defined the MIME type, program and
applicable file extensions that are to be recognized. For this example,
Application/x-cyrillic1   c:\myrussianprogram.exe     .cyr
These are defined under Options|Preferences.

The "x-" means that this is not a standrad MIME type. The user
community needs to agree on this scheme if it is to be used widely.