Mozilla's e-mail client Thunderbird and Cyrillic

[Paul B. Gallagher]

Nora Favorov wrote:

> Actually, it would be helpful if any replies were posted to the list. I have
> also been wondering about this and I suspect others are too.

No reason why it shouldn't, Pavel Gorodyansky seems to think it does.

At least in previous products in the line (Netscape 7.x), you really
don't have to do anything. It already "allows" Cyrillic, whatever that
means.

There are a couple of tweaks you might want to implement if you use
Cyrillic a lot. For example:

1) A lot of Russian pages don't bother to include a charset metatag, so
a browser has to guess which encoding to use. You might prefer to tell
Windows that your default character set and region are Russian and
Russia. The result will be that title bars (the blue area at the top of
each window) will appear in Cyrillic instead of gibberish.

2) You might prefer to tell Thunderbird, Mozilla, Netscape, etc. that in
the absence of guidance, they should guess "Cyrillic (Windows 1251)" (or
whatever your favorite encoding is).

3) Even so, some of your correspondents will send malformed messages
that contain Cyrillic but whose headers lie and say they're in Western.
Just go to the View menu and select the right encoding and you should be
fine.

This isn't hard or complicated, and unless you're using a 1990s-vintage
product you shouldn't worry about it too much.

--
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
--
Paul B. Gallagher
pbg translations, inc.
"Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
http://pbg-translations.com

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