Freeper computer techies, I need your help

me | August 7 2003 | mw

[Coroner]

Hi freepers, I have a problem sending and receiving emails in russian. Any suggestions. Thanks!!

[Sir Gawain]

I would try to learn Russian first.

[The Old Hoosier]

I'd learn Russian first. That might make it easier.

Sorry! :-)

[Unknown Freeper]

Send them in english. Don't try french though. That's against the law.

[Michael121]

ROFLMAO.........

Good one Jeebs......

How about making the recipient learn ENGLISH first.... the American way...... :o)

[HairOfTheDog]

Perhaps you should ask a Russian.

[JoeSixPack1]

turn off your anti-virus software

[Redcloak]

Any suggestions?

Nyet.

[Ex-Dem]

Download a Russian language pack.

[Michael121]

http://www.rustran.com/


try that..... take it a sentence at a time.

[Temple Owl]

Russian is all Greek to me.

[TankerKC]

We'll need specs on your computer...and a picture of your girlfriend.

[MrsEmmaPeel]

I have a problem sending and receiving emails in russian. Any suggestions. Thanks!!

If you have Russian text in a Word Doc, do a SAVE AS to .html. That will translate the file to unicode. Send the .html file.

If you want to translate Russian text, go to: http://babelfish.altavista.com/

[Coroner]

thanks, I can already read and write russian. I just need to know how to switch my computer from english to russian

[Coroner]

Thanks I'll try it.

[TankerKC]

Check Here

[Unknown Freeper]

bttt

[Coroner]

Thanks thats pretty close. The problem is when I receive emails from Russia. The russian writing comes out to be mumbo jumbo. It would be nice if I could type directly in russian, maybe then i could receive emails from russia that I could read. Its amazing how much freepers know about everything anything. There are some clever freepers out there. Thanks Coroner.

[Badray]

Mrs Peel,

Are you still the gorgeous lady that I fell in love with so long ago? You can answer in any language.

[evilC]

Can't give you an exact answer but it is most likely to do with the character set in your e-mail program.

Inside your computer each character is identified by a number (e.g. "A" normally has a code of 65). Because the Russian alphabet is different it can not use the standard (ASCII) codes that you use for English.

Your e-mail program needs to be able to use the other character codes. There is probably a setting that tells the e-mail program what character codes to use..... somewhere.