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Thread #57965   Message #916342
Posted By: Haruo
22-Mar-03 - 11:49 PM
Thread Name: Req: Polem dym / Veshchaya Sud'ba ( russian song)
Subject: Unicode numerical aliases for Russian, Greek etc.
Interesting: even without trying my browser did the Unicode right. When I set it to Cyrillic (Win) then it does both the Windows and the Unicode versions right. But no matter what I do I can't seem to get my KOI8-R to work.

So it appears that the Unicode UTF-8 encoding is the best one to use if you want others to be able to read it here. Unfortunately, the only way I know to use it is to type out the numerical aliases of each letter, which means each character is seven characters long; usually what I do is first type ampersandpoundsignsemicolon, highlight it, Ctrl-X it, and then use Ctrl-V once for each letter in the text I'm typing, using ordinary English punctuation and spaces. Then I go back and fill in the four-digit number for each letter. Where do I find the four-digit numbers to use? On my website's Unicode page, which also has a bunch of other-language letters including the Greek alphabet.

This is not efficient, but it works, and I can use it from anywhere since my Unicode page is on the Web (as well as on my home computer, where I don't have Internet access).

Haruo