Cyrillic encodings

[David Powelstock]

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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