Difficulties with RSL On-Line Catalogue

[Paul B. Gallagher]

Erika Wolf wrote:

> I have been trying to access the on-line catalogue of the Russian State 
> Library and have been having some difficulties in getting the pages to 
> display correctly and to simply use the search commands.
> 
> The catalogue that I am attempting to use is at the following address:
> 
> <http://aleph.rsl.ru>
> 
> I was able to do this in the past -- but I simply can't remember how I 
> set my fonts up in my browser.
> 
> Can anyone offer a quick fix solution?

It's not your fault, it's the webmaster's.

 From what I can tell, the whole site is miscoded -- each page lies to 
your browser and specifies ISO-8859-5, when it's actually written in 
Windows-1251. You have to select the encoding manually. And of course 
each time you browse to a new page at the site, it lies to your browser 
again and you have to correct the encoding again.

If your browser has this option, you can temporarily tell it to display 
all web pages in Windows-1251 and disregard the site's instructions. Of 
course, you'll want to set it back to normal after you leave the site.

-- 
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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