The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #46265   Message #688848
Posted By: Haruo
12-Apr-02 - 07:25 PM
Thread Name: Russian Folk Songs with English translations
Subject: RE: Russian Folk Songs with English translat
"GUEST Firecat at college" asked how I made Cyrillic letters appear (at least in IE). I used the ampersand-numbersign-numericcode-semicolon approach, taking the appropriate numeric codes from my website's list of Unicode Character Codes (scroll down to the Cyrillic part). My guess is that even in Netscape MMario can see the Cyrillic on that page, though not on this one, because that whole page is encoded "utf-8", i.e. Unicode, whereas this page is not. IE apparently assumes such codes are Unicode characters unless explicitly told otherwise, whereas Netscape is the other way around, doesn't assume anything until directly told to. It is possible that some sort of "SPAN" tag or something here would solve the problem, but I don't have access to enough online time to check it out. I'm interested in knowing what people using other browsers besides IE and Netscape see when they look at my attempted Russian, too.

Liland

Try it out, GUEST Firecat at college! But remember only the people with IE will probably be able to read it (and even then, only those who also know some Russian).