request for help from windows language/font gurus
have a brief email i’d like to translate. it’s apparently in russian, but looks like this instead of russian. i’m confused, since i can display cyrillic characters fine in my browser. don’t understand what different protocol is being used for the many pages i’ve found that share this strange character set. know almost nothing about unicode, etc.
i turned the email into an html file and loaded it in IE after adding russian as a language. no change. went to a zillion translation sites. some did translate the character set into cyrillic, but it was apparently always gibberish (for a test word which i know from google searches isn’t).
April 13th, 2007 at 09:45
> have a brief email i’d like to translate. it’s apparently in russian, but looks like this instead of russian.
Since the HTML source for that linked page mentions Netscape 3.0…
> “Mozilla/3.0Gold (Win95; I) [Netscape]“
you might look at this or this.
HTH,
Mark Odell
April 13th, 2007 at 19:24
mark, you’re a life savahhh. using one of your google links led me to a KOI8 converter from which i was at least able to get a translit version, which i guess means the phonetic equivalent using english characters.
from there i google each word and try to figure it out from there…
no, wait! just googled <translit conversion russian> and it led me to this apparently updated version of the same converter, with an automatic frill. instant success! took those obviously cyrillic characters over to google translate, and it translated perfectly. thanks, man. i figured this was gonna be a 2-year project.
April 14th, 2007 at 23:41
You are most welcome, sir. Good find on the converter.
Mark Odell