Hello Mica,

On Thursday, December 29, 2005, at 15:02 Lithuanian Time, you wrote:

>> 2) instead of – appeared v

> It's because you have changed/overwritten original charset (of my
> message) KOI8-R to UTF-8. It's also reason that when I reply to your
> reply the whole Russian text is messed up and morphed (in)to question
> marks.

> So, this one wouldn't be a bug. It's just a matter of charset
> consistency in reply sequences/threads, defined on user level. If you
> would reply to the same message again, but changing not its original
> charset, whole Russian text would show correctly.

Well, changing charset from som 8 bit charset to UTF-8 should not loose any
characters. If it looses -- it's a bug.

And yes, I've tried to reply to your message using KOI8-R -- instead of — I
got v.

> As I know, windows-1251 will entirely correctly display just _some_ of
> Cyrillic texts (Serbian for instance when is not written in Latin,
> Macedonian and few others I don't know much about), but not Russian. Add
> to this that I'm still fairly puzzled as to the number of Russian
> encodings and variants. Might be easily that it looks much simpler when
> is understood.

As far as I know all Russian characters are covered by the windows-1251
charset.

> Is it Lithuanian written using only Latin letters?

We use 23 not accented latin letters (english alphabet minus q, w and x) and
9 accented latin letters (ąčęėįšųūž).

-- 
Edvinas










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