Cyrillic encodings

[David Powelstock]

Hi, Robert (and all),

I'm not very familiar with email programs other than Outlook, which is what I use, but there should be a separate setting (somewhere!) for the encoding your program will use to *compose* emails. ('Automatic,' I think, must refer to how your program *decodes* incoming messages.)

Cheers,
David

-----Original Message-----
From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Robert Chandler
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 3:22 AM
To: SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Cyrillic encodings

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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