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From: Max Gotlib <max@cca.usart.ru>
To: gestura@nyherji.is
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Subject: Re: russian language mixes in sendmail
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Hi!

Seems to be the problem of multiply russian
character sets used in e-mail conversations.
There are at least three widely used charsets:
koi8-r (koi8-u for Ukrainian) used in unix environments,
win1251 M$ proposed charset and cp866 (also known
as "alternative") IBM proposed charset. Beside these,
there is iso-8859-5 (used in some unixies and Mac)
and several 7-bit alternatives (koi7, gost, ...).
There is de-facto standard for the "transportation"
encoding - koi8-r (but not de-yuro).
So, the problem (IMHO) is in user's mailreaders,
that could not "understand" each other. The possible
solution is to use "charcter-set-on-the-fly-converters",
but i'm not sure that it is sutable in "multilingual"
mail relaing...

Best regards,
Max.

On Tue, 27 Oct 1998 gestura@nyherji.is wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> does anyone know why email sent in russian special character set mixes up
> after beeing handled in the mailing system, I get all kinds of garbage
> instead of readable russian letter for my russian users
> 
> I've recently upgraded the sendmail I run on my system to 8.6.1a
> 
> Með kveðju
> 
> G.A.Grjetarsson
> gestura@nyherji.is
> M.T.S. B.W.Y.
> http://www.itn.is/grand
> 
> Nyherji hf
> Kerfisþjónusta, netdeild
> internet@nyherji.is


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