Re: Tech: Unicode (was...)

On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 08:29:39AM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote:

> I can't even begin to turn those into characters without converting into
> hex first (see above about decimal code points).  But yes, those are
> U+0410, U+0411, U+0412, and U+0413, the uppercase versions of the first
> four letters of the Cyrillic alphabet:
>
> ??@????????
I'm amazed to see that my mailer *does* appear to understand this and be
trying to display it in Cyrillic.  Unfortunately, my terminal cannot
display Cyrillic and all I see is question marks and an @ symbol :)

It's ironic that this is the same mail program (though perhaps not the
same version) which last year was displaying Cyrillic characters (I don't
know which encoding they were in) in an overly-helpful lossy Roman
transliteration.  I didn't even know what I was missing, for I assumed
they'd been transliterated by the sender!

Amanda