Emailing in Russian

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April 3rd, 2006, 04:01 AM
Бармалей

Emailing in Russian

OK, so a question for you technical wizards:
I'm trying to send a Russian friend of mine an email, in Cyrillic encoding. The problem is that she apparently is accessing her webmail via either an Latin script encoding or a Russian character set that for some reason won't show up right when she opens my mail (my guess is that it's probably in English, though). What's the easiest fix for this (and don't say transliteration - ugh)? She's not that computer savvy, so I'd like to avoid giving her instructions -- is there some way I can encode my message so that it's character-set is auto-detected or something? And for what its worth, another Russian acquaintance can access my messages fine -- I think she's more computer literate, however, so she may freely switch back-and-forth among encodings as necessary...
Заранее спасибо!
April 3rd, 2006, 04:27 AM
BlackMage

Put it in a text file.
April 3rd, 2006, 05:00 AM
ST

right, text file as attach...like notepad or m$-word :)
April 3rd, 2006, 08:56 AM
Rtyom

yeah, that's the easiest.
April 3rd, 2006, 05:59 PM
tdk2fe

I'd stick to MS-Word, because sometimes notepad for me likes to forget the encoding and it turns everything into rubbish.

tdk
April 3rd, 2006, 06:01 PM
Бармалей

OK, I'll try this then. Thanks guys!
April 3rd, 2006, 10:04 PM
Seventh-Monkey

If you can specify the encoding to be used yourself, try flicking it to Unicode/UTF-8 (sorta synonymous). The encoding type is sent with the e-mail, so if there's something wrong at her end, it's not that she hasn't selected the right one herself. Could well be laziness/corner-cutting on the part of her e-mail provider.
April 3rd, 2006, 10:57 PM
TATY

Don't send e-mails to people who can't work out how to set IE to the correct encoding.
April 3rd, 2006, 11:01 PM
DDL

Quote:

Originally Posted by TATY

Don't send e-mails to people who can't work out how to set IE to the correct encoding.

Assuming the person uses IE...
April 3rd, 2006, 11:05 PM
TATY

Quote:

Originally Posted by DDL

Quote:

Originally Posted by TATY

Don't send e-mails to people who can't work out how to set IE to the correct encoding.

Assuming the person uses IE...

Considering she can't work out how to view an e-mail in Russian, she is probably not good with computers and those people tend to not venture away from IE.
April 4th, 2006, 12:01 AM
kalinka_vinnie

Most cute girls don't know how to use computers, that is a biological fact. Barm, what is her email address?
April 4th, 2006, 12:09 AM
tdk2fe

Most cute boys dont, either.

tdk
April 4th, 2006, 12:12 AM
Ty

Quote:

Originally Posted by tdk2fe

Most cute boys dont, either.

tdk

:D :lol: :D "That is a biological fact"

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April 4th, 2006, 12:35 AM
Бармалей

Quote:

Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie

Most cute girls don't know how to use computers, that is a biological fact. Barm, what is her email address?

janedoe@starband.net. And yeah, I tried the uni-code option I believe -- I don't think it worked.
April 4th, 2006, 12:36 AM
Бармалей

Quote:

Originally Posted by tdk2fe

Most cute boys dont, either.

tdk

Well, I guess since I use Firefox, that explains it... :lol:
April 4th, 2006, 12:42 AM
DDL

Quote:

Originally Posted by Barmaley

Quote:

Originally Posted by tdk2fe

Most cute boys dont, either.

tdk

Well, I guess since I use Firefox, that explains it... :lol:

I use Firefox too.. no wonder. :P
April 4th, 2006, 01:47 AM
BlackMage

Firefox, represent!
April 4th, 2006, 07:41 AM
Seventh-Monkey

Opera, thrashes it!

#in the safety of a pitch-black mind
an airless cell
that blocks the daieee
oh, okay
okay#
April 4th, 2006, 11:49 AM
cdnexpat

Does this look like this?
April 4th, 2006, 12:20 PM
Volk

Try putting it through a translator. Sometimes that converts the text but it still ends up being a little mixed up, grammar-wise.
April 4th, 2006, 02:55 PM
Бармалей

Quote:

Originally Posted by Seventh-Monkey

Opera, thrashes it!

I actually have Opera too -- that's what I used pre-Firefox; I've just gotten use to Firefox now. Actually, really all I use Opera for is to watch all those videos at youtube.com that people have been posting daily here -- for some reason Firefox hasn't seemed to like that site...