Cyrillic encodings

[Tom Dolack]

Speaking of SeaMonkey, does anybody have any experience with "Zombie 
Keys" (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/seamonkey/addon/2335)? It's 
supposed to allow you to do the accented Cyrillic thing (or accented 
just about anything, for that matter) that comes up on the list 
periodically. I haven't tried it, but it looks promising. It may be of 
use to some list members.

Regards to the list,
Tom

Paul B. Gallagher wrote:)
> 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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