Irritating equal strings

Helen Halva hhalva at MINDSPRING.COM
Thu Mar 8 23:53:35 UTC 2007


Bless your heart!  This will be heavenly!
Thanks!
HH


At 04:32 PM 3/8/2007 -0700, you wrote:
>Colleagues,
>
>On occasion we see a message on SEELANGS that contains an indecipherable 
>set of characters like =D0=1F=D1=80=D0=B8=D0=32=D0=35=D1=82 or sometimes 
>other gobbledygook.  I finally became irritated enough to do something 
>about it and wrote a utility to help unscramble those sequences.  You may 
>use it free of charge at:
>
>http://shininghappypeople.net/deljr/equalconverter.htm
>
>Copy the offending text, paste it into the space provided and follow the 
>easy instructions.  Quite often that will clarify the text.  Bookmark the 
>webpage in your browser for easy access.  The utility does not solve all 
>the coding issues, but I think you'll find it helpful.  I already have.
>
>It's worth remembering that there are still many mail systems out there 
>that are not configured to deal with Cyrillic characters.  The safest way 
>to be sure that the majority of subscribers will be able to read your 
>posting is to transliterate it into English characters.  If you have a 
>Russian text that would take too long to retype, then go to
>
>http://www.convertcyrillic.com/
>
>where you can paste your text into a window, choose ALA-LC Romanization 
>WITHOUT diacritics and click convert.  The text will be transliterated 
>without your having to retype it, and you can easily paste it into your 
>posting.
>
>Warmest wishes, Don Livingston.
>
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