In the Stenka Razin thread we just ran into a situation where I typed some Russian text (in Win-1251 encoding) and it didn't come out right (even though the text of Stenka Razin just above it, posted by AKS, did look good. So here I'm going to try to see if there is a reliable way to post Russian text in Cyrillic. I've chosen KOI-8 encoding (because it seems to me to be what most Russian webpages actually use, and also because it's what I've got on hand to test with). In my online hymnal I have three hymns in Russian (translations of "Hark! the Herald Angels Sing", "Joy to the World", and "Silent Night"). What follows here should be the first verse of "Hark! the Herald Angels Sing":
ցÃ"Ã"É Ã쳌ÎÇÅÌØÃ"ËÃ쳌Ê ×ÎÅÃ쳌ÌÉ:
ãÃ쳌Ã'Ø Ã'Ã쳌ÄÉÌÃ"Ã' ×Ã"ÅÊ ÚÅÃ쳌ÌÉ!
ÃÉÌÃ쳌Ã"Ã"Ø, Ã쳌ÉÃ' ïÎ ×Ã"Ã…Ã쳌 ÄÃ쳌Ã'ÉÃ",
çÃ'ÅÛÎÙÈ Ã" âÃ쳌ÇÃ쳌Ã쳌 Ã쳌Ã'ÉÃ쳌ÉÃ'ÉÃ".
÷Ã"Ã… ÃŽÃ쳌Ã'Ã쳌ÄÙ ×Ã쳌ÚÎÅÃ"ÉÃ"Ã…Ã"Ø,
ó Ã쳌ÎÇÅÌÃ쳌Ã쳌É Ã"ßÅÄÉÎÉÃ"Ã…Ã"Ø;
÷ÉÆÌÅÅÃ쳌Õ Ã쳌Ã…Ã"ÎØ Ã쳌Ã쳌£Ã쳌, —
ãÃ쳌Ã'Ø èÃ'ÉÃ"Ã"Ã쳌Ã" Ã'Ã쳌ÄÉÌÃ"Ã' × ΣÃ쳌.
- ցÃ"Ã"É Ã쳌ÎÇÅÌØÃ"ËÃ쳌Ê ×ÎÅÃ쳌ÌÉ:
- ãÃ쳌Ã'Ø Ã'Ã쳌ÄÉÌÃ"Ã' ×Ã"ÅÊ ÚÅÃ쳌ÌÉ!
Well, did it work?
Liland aka Ivan Ivanovitch aka ...