Unreadable Cyrillics in an email Thread poster: Sara Noss
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Sara Noss 
United Kingdom
Local time: 05:46
Member (2006)
French to English
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I believe that I have received an e-mail via my Proz e-mail from a colleague or interested party in Russia or elsewhere. Unfortunately, my e-mail does not read the code, and the format of the e-mail is pretty but indecipherable. For some reason, I am unable to reply to the sender.
How do I go about making my e-mail readable?
I would appreciate any advice on how I can view it in the original Russian (cyrillic).
I suspect I should know the answer, but I am af... See more I believe that I have received an e-mail via my Proz e-mail from a colleague or interested party in Russia or elsewhere. Unfortunately, my e-mail does not read the code, and the format of the e-mail is pretty but indecipherable. For some reason, I am unable to reply to the sender.
How do I go about making my e-mail readable?
I would appreciate any advice on how I can view it in the original Russian (cyrillic).
I suspect I should know the answer, but I am afraid I do not!
Grateful regards,
Sara
[Subject edited by staff or moderator 2007-01-05 23:32] ▲ Collapse
| | | | Jack Doughty
United Kingdom
Local time: 05:46
Russian to English
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In memoriam | Is your character encoding set to "Unicode"? | Jan 5, 2007 |
If it is, it should be OK, but if it still isn't, try Windows Cyrillic-1251 or KOI-8.
| | | | Sara Noss
United Kingdom
Local time: 05:46
Member (2006)
French to English
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TOPIC STARTER | Thank you for your reply, Jack! | Jan 5, 2007 |
I have a BTYahoo account and have gone to 'view' and then 'encoding' and picked each of the various Cyrillic encodings in turn.
Unfortunately, I cannot make any of the options work. I will try again tomorrow after the effects of a couple of cheeky
G&Ts have worn off!
Thanks for your help & sleep well!
Kind regards,
Sara
[Edited at 2007-01-05 23:54]
| | | | Irene N
United States
Local time: 23:46
English to Russian
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Looks like this is not just your email problem - Proz mail often messes up Cyrillic. Did you get question marks?
I would suggest replying in English or in Russian using Latin alphabet, and asking to repeat the message to your direct email, which will come with that reply. After the first exchange create a new message and do not use the same message body as it will keep playing the same tricks on you. When I suggest someone to write me via Proz email, I always ask for the first messa... See more Looks like this is not just your email problem - Proz mail often messes up Cyrillic. Did you get question marks?
I would suggest replying in English or in Russian using Latin alphabet, and asking to repeat the message to your direct email, which will come with that reply. After the first exchange create a new message and do not use the same message body as it will keep playing the same tricks on you. When I suggest someone to write me via Proz email, I always ask for the first message in English and then we switch to Russian, if necessary, in our exchange through personal accounts.
Best,
Irene
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moskwich
Bulgaria
Local time: 07:46
English to Bulgarian
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select and copy the text into MS word then use TOOLS->FIX BROKEN TEXT and choose your language. that usually does the trick
| | | | Natalia Elo
Germany
Local time: 06:46
English to Russian
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Hi,
I suggest trying decoder.
http://www.charset.ru/
Insert the corrupted text and click on upper left button.
Natalia
P.S. Sorry, I've just read in your profile, that you translate from Russian, so you should know what button to press:)
[Edited at 2007-01-06 15:31]
| | | | Sara Noss
United Kingdom
Local time: 05:46
Member (2006)
French to English
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TOPIC STARTER | Thank you to all of you for your advice. | Jan 6, 2007 |
In addition to thanking Jack, I would like to thank IreneN, Ognyan Penev and NataliaElo for some great tips that I will be able to put to future good use.
You've saved my bacon!
Sara
PS - Natalia, I did know where to look, but thanks for the directions
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