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Gene E. Bloch

I didn't type "????????", I typed karandash in Cyrillic.

It looked good when I hit send...maybe you can't read the character set
I used (whatever it was).
Oh - it also looked fine in my original post as it appeared here in the
article pane after I sent it, but I have no idea where or how the
Cyrillic got lost. Not my area of expertise :)

Maybe someone else can inform us whether my original Cyrillic text
looked OK to them.
 
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Gene E. Bloch

That's right, but it was made famous by the French caricaturist E. Poire,
who used it as a pseudonym. More on him (and the word):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caran_d'Ache
ÁßÐáØÑÞ!

I actually don't know Russian, so I'm not even sure I succeeded in
thanking you ;-)

And now I know why the Russian word for pencil is a bit un-Slavic
looking. Thanks again.
 
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Paul

Gene said:
Oh - it also looked fine in my original post as it appeared here in the
article pane after I sent it, but I have no idea where or how the
Cyrillic got lost. Not my area of expertise :)

Maybe someone else can inform us whether my original Cyrillic text
looked OK to them.
Your post with the Cyrillic had this in the header, whatever this means:

text/plain; charset="iso-8859-5"

And it came through fine when I viewed it in Thunderbird. It looked like this.

http://imageshack.us/a/img560/4633/zqk.gif

Paul
 
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...winston

"Gene E. Bloch" wrote in message
Maybe someone else can inform us whether my original Cyrillic text
looked OK to them.
выглÑдит хорошо

....w
 
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choro

Oh - it also looked fine in my original post as it appeared here in the
article pane after I sent it, but I have no idea where or how the
Cyrillic got lost. Not my area of expertise :)

Maybe someone else can inform us whether my original Cyrillic text
looked OK to them.
It appeared purrr-fect at my end!--
choro
*****
 
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Ken Blake

I didn't type "????????", I typed karandash in Cyrillic.

It looked good when I hit send...maybe you can't read the character set
I used (whatever it was).

I guess my newsreader (Agent) isn't set to read Cyrillic.

By the way,although I know next to nothing of the Russian language I
*can* read Cyrillic. I taught myself to read Cyrillic over 50 years
ago when I was an active tournament Chess player and used to get the
Russian Chess magazine Shakhmaty. I couldn't read any of the magazine
text, but the moves are international and I learned Cyrillic so I
could read the names of the players.

Do you know Russian?
 
G

Gene E. Bloch

I guess my newsreader (Agent) isn't set to read Cyrillic.

By the way,although I know next to nothing of the Russian language I
*can* read Cyrillic. I taught myself to read Cyrillic over 50 years
ago when I was an active tournament Chess player and used to get the
Russian Chess magazine Shakhmaty. I couldn't read any of the magazine
text, but the moves are international and I learned Cyrillic so I
could read the names of the players.

Do you know Russian?
No. Like you, I can read Cyrillic, albeit slowly. I can sometimes type
it as well, although I don't know the cursive. I can occasionally puzzle
out cursive Cyrillic, but that's really hard for me.

It's just that I am in the habit of occasionally learning an alphabet or
two. The Cyrillic helps in reading things like the name of a Bulgarian
or Serbian folk dance or song on YouTube or on a recording - the
different versions of Cyrillic are not a great obstacle.

The tough one has been Arabic. It has taken over a decade[1], and I
still can't make sense out of any fonts other than the most vanilla of
Arabic script.

[1] My approach was too piecemeal, or really too careless. I finally
decided to learn the letters in order, learning to read and write a few
at a time in order. That worked.
 
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Ken Blake

No. Like you, I can read Cyrillic, albeit slowly. I can sometimes type
it as well, although I don't know the cursive. I can occasionally puzzle
out cursive Cyrillic, but that's really hard for me.

Me too. I never was able to do cursive Cyrillic.

It's just that I am in the habit of occasionally learning an alphabet or
two. The Cyrillic helps in reading things like the name of a Bulgarian
or Serbian folk dance or song on YouTube or on a recording - the
different versions of Cyrillic are not a great obstacle.

The tough one has been Arabic. It has taken over a decade[1], and I
still can't make sense out of any fonts other than the most vanilla of
Arabic script.

I don't know Arabic at all.I use to know Katakana, but I've forgotten
most of that.
 
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...winston

"Ken Blake" wrote in message
I guess my newsreader (Agent) isn't set to read Cyrillic.

By the way,although I know next to nothing of the Russian language I
*can* read Cyrillic. I taught myself to read Cyrillic over 50 years
ago when I was an active tournament Chess player and used to get the
Russian Chess magazine Shakhmaty. I couldn't read any of the magazine
text, but the moves are international and I learned Cyrillic so I
could read the names of the players.

Do you know Russian?Apparently a plus for WLM (or SeaMonkey) both retained the Cyrillic text <g>


-- --
....winston
msft mvp consumer apps
 
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Ken Blake

"Ken Blake" wrote in message

I guess my newsreader (Agent) isn't set to read Cyrillic.

By the way,although I know next to nothing of the Russian language I
*can* read Cyrillic. I taught myself to read Cyrillic over 50 years
ago when I was an active tournament Chess player and used to get the
Russian Chess magazine Shakhmaty. I couldn't read any of the magazine
text, but the moves are international and I learned Cyrillic so I
could read the names of the players.

Do you know Russian?
Apparently a plus for WLM (or SeaMonkey) both retained the Cyrillic text <g>

Agent, which I use, can do so too. I just don't have the fonts set
correctly to do that, since even if I could read the letters, I
wouldn't know what they meant.
 
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Tim Slattery

Agent, which I use, can do so too. I just don't have the fonts set
correctly to do that, since even if I could read the letters, I
wouldn't know what they meant.
I think you have to have the right code page specified for Agent to
display the desired characters. It would be nice if they would upgrade
it to properly handle Unicode.
 
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Ken Blake

I think you have to have the right code page specified for Agent to
display the desired characters.

Yes, I think so. But again, since I can read the Cyrillic characters,
but not understand the Russian words they spell, I don't really desire
them.

It would be nice if they would upgrade
it to properly handle Unicode.

I guess it would be nice, but it wouldn't be very important to me.
 

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