Cyrillic encodings

[Paul B. Gallagher]

Philip Robinson wrote:

> Thanks for the good advice, David.  Yes, UTF-8 is a good solution, 
> though my university-supplied mail program stunningly lacks the ability 
> to tweak the encoding (either inbound or outbound), so I should probably 
> replace it.  I think we are scheduled to move to Outlook soon, which 
> would be an improvement.
> 
> Firefox and other browsers provide the capability of changing the 
> encoding, so I pop open SEELANGS postings in two places, hoping for the 
> best, though still around a third of the Cyrillic text is garbled 
> (undoubtedly due to the issue of the differently-encoded outbound 
> postings).  Hence my call for Latin transliteration, though I realize 
> it's extra effort for everybody.  I enjoy this list, so I don't want to 
> miss anything!

If you like Firefox, you might also like its email partner Thunderbird, 
or the newest integrated suite from the Mozilla organization, SeaMonkey. 
All will guess encodings based on the sender's specifications, but when 
the sender's program or website lies, you can manually override it.

<http://www.mozilla.org>

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Paul B. Gallagher
pbg translations, inc.
"Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
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