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Subject: Re: If you enjoy like me solving mates... (OT)

Author: Paul

Date: 12:05:45 04/17/01

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On April 17, 2001 at 14:21:21, Heiner Marxen wrote:

>On April 17, 2001 at 10:29:41, Paul wrote:
>
>>On April 17, 2001 at 10:02:37, Heiner Marxen wrote:
>>
>>>On April 16, 2001 at 10:33:19, Paul wrote:
>>>
>>>>On April 16, 2001 at 10:32:20, Paul wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>õîðîøèé âðåìÿ ïîñëå ïîëóäíÿ,
>>>>
>>>>Yesssssss!!! :)
>>>>Paul
>>>
>>>Try viewing with character set KOI8-R.  Looks much better, although I know
>>>nothing about it (I don't speak any russian).
>>>
>>>Heiner
>>
>>I used http://www.tranexp.com:2000/InterTran for this, input in English 'good
>>afternoon' and output to Russian (CP 1251), really looks great, even though I
>>haven't installed any Russian character sets (that I'm aware of).
>>
>>I'll try your suggestion, if I ever find out how it works (almost never deal
>>with fonts, I'm one of the happy few who doesn't even have a wordprocessor
>>installed :)). Where do I get that set & does that work under W98? So many
>>questions ... :)
>>
>>Thanks Heiner,
>>Paul
>
>I'm not sure about W98, since I use Netscape 4.7 under Linux: from the top
>level menu "View" I choose "Character Set" and can select from about 20
>different ways to interpret text (byte streams).  ISO-8859-1 is the standard
>coding for me, and KOI8-R is one of 4 choices for Cyrillic.  "Windows 1251"
>is another choice there, so that may be a better choice for your text.
>
>I would expect other browsers to offer something similar.
>Explicit installation of fonts should not be necessary, here, since
>modern systems tend to have pre-installed the most common ones, which
>the browser would find at the standard place for fonts.
>
>Heiner

Looks great! It works ... I use Internet Explorer 5 under W98se, and if anyone
else is interested (Leonid!), you can select the encoding type from the menu:

 View->Encoding->More->Cyrillic(KOI8-R)

Thanks Heiner,
Paul




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