Re: TECH: Cyrillics (was: Russian, anyone?)

Amanda Babcock wrote at 2003-04-22 17:00:18 (-0400)
 > On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 12:53:42PM +0300, Isaac Penzev wrote:
 >
 > > > No, no.  I got them right to begin with.  Vsi horoso!
 > > > I just didn't realize my mail client was so... *helpful*... in disguising
 > > > those nasty 8-bit characters from me :)
 > >
 > > Well, I'm still not sure I understood what was the problem. But if it's "÷Ó£
 > > ÈÏÒÏÛÏ", let it be so.
 >
 > It's just that I receive the email correctly, but my mailreader
 > "mutt" insists on putting up on my screen "Vsi horoso" instead of
 > "÷Ó£ ÈÏÒÏÛÏ".  It has some transliteration table which converts
 > each KOI-8R letter into a regular ASCII letter, obviously doubling
 > some up along the way.

Now, I'm no expert on either Cyrillic or encoding systems, but isn't
there a cyrillic encoding (and I think it _was_ KOI-8R, but I'm not
sure) designed specifically so that if it gets the 8th bit removed,
the ASCII characters produced are a rough transliteration?  I remember
reading an article on this a long time ago - seems it contributed to
the mass adoption of this encoding, as mails could be read even when
bit-stripped, which happened a lot in the early days of the Russian
Internet.  Could it be that that's what's happening, rather than Mutt
actually having a table?

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