Cyrillic encodings

[Robert Chandler]

So are you saying I should always set 'Character Set' in my email programme
to 'UTF-8' rather than to 'Automatic'? This won't cause other problems?

Best Wishes,

Robert




> Yes, and to the extend your computer savvy (or that of someone you know)
> allows, please try to set your keyboard and email programs to use UTF-8
> ("8-bit Unicode"). This is the standard toward which everything is going,
> and so you'd be doing yourself (and everyone else!) a favor by moving toward
> it.
> 
> Best wishes to all,
> David
> 
> David Powelstock
> Asst. Prof. of Russian & East European Literatures
> Chair, Program in Russian & East European Studies
> Brandeis University
> GRALL, MS 024
> Waltham, MA  02454-9110
> 781.736.3347 (Office)
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list
> [mailto:SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Philip Robinson
> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 11:18 AM
> To: SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] a possibly minority position
> 
> While we're on this subject, I am probably not the first person to make this
> request on SEELANGS, but it would be most helpful if those who post
> something in Cyrillic would also  provide a Latin transliteration.  As much
> as I prefer to read Russian and other languages in Cyrillic, about a third
> of the Cyrillic text in SEELANGS postings does not render correctly, and I
> use a variety of web-based and fat-client email readers with different
> encoding schemes to try to parse them.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Phil Robinson
> 
> At 09:08 PM 3/30/2008, you wrote:
>> Dustin Hosseini wrote:
>> 
>>> John,
>>> Could you transliterate the Russian words?  They came out garbled; or
>>> at least on my end they are all question marks ????
>> 
>> Not your fault.
>> 
>> John's Outlook Express 6 sent his message with the following parameters
>> (I've omitted the irrelevant parts):
>> 
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>> 
>> Seven-bit encoding will always convert Cyrillic to question marks, and
>> the information is cannot be recovered at the receiving end.
>> 
>> I have no idea why OE decided that this message required only Western
>> encoding, and 7-bit to boot -- I don't use the program. Sorry.
>> 
>> --
>> 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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