fonts tricks in e-mail

Sergey Semenyuk serge_ss-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org
Thu Apr 22 01:26:25 UTC 2004


You just made me think about it. There is no standard Russian encoding. I
know the following (guys, correct me if I missed something): 
1) There was so called standard encoding which existed on XP-like machines. 
2) Alternative (I can mix it with the one above), but namely CP866 - DOS
3) ISO-8859-5 - could be one that is not CP866 (I mean #1 in the list). Know
very little about its use. Note: Long time ago we used the words standard
and alternative, I just don't remember which one is which.
4) KOI-8R - UNIX
5) CP1251 - Windows

The mostly used ones are KOI-8R and CP1251. 
This stuff is not a problem for most of e-mail clients but sometimes even
mail servers can chop off some bits (and even characters). The message
consisting mostly of question marks is rather hard to read, that is why I
use mostly so called "translit" (English spelling). But this is pretty much
dependent of a mail server/client and headers:
Content-type: text/plain; charset=.....
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7/8bit (well if is 7bit and the message is 8 bit
you will have fun reading it).

I guess this is not quite right subject for this place, but if people want
to move on it will be interesting for everybody.

Sergey

PS: Sorry for the Russian piece again. 



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Zbigniew
Koziol
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 8:35 PM
To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
Subject: [TLUG]: fonts tricks in e-mail

From: "Sergey Semenyuk" <serge_ss-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org>

- порт 389/tcp

I see this properly, with Cyrillic fonts. But my wife is Russian (I am
Polish, well, a Canadian too) and I have no choice but to use Russian on my
computer (which is btw not bad - there is a lot of Russian web sites worth
of reading, which is not a problem for me)

You, Sergey, will probably see "порт" properly on your computer. But most
other recepients of this email will not.

I use now, temporarily, so called Outlook Express. But I noticed that KMail
has a sort of problems as well when it comes to deal with foreing fonts.

zb.



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