On Sat, 10 May 2008, alex_t wrote:

When you say "russian X", you mean "russian letter that looks like an
X", right?

Yep, exactly. I was trying to be clever and avoid encoding
problems ;-)

Yup. For those who kan't see KOI8 kharakters properly (like me!), this
one looks a bit like a rektangular W, possibly with a little tail like
a Q, i kan't remember.

I don't think those were KOI8 characters, my Firefox is set to UTF-8
encoding... then again, I have no idea really.

Your content-type header said KOI8. It's possible that you sent it as
UTF-8 but that it got transcoded at some point along the way, i think.

Also, I have custom made Russian keyboard layout which only one person
in world uses (me) - and I have no idea whether this is mapped to
Unicode Russian, Windows Russian, or UNIX Russian (KOI-8).

Pass! I would imagine that your operating system, if it's modern, is using
unicode internally, that your newsreader is using unicode represented as
UTF-8 (as you said), but that before it goes to the network, it's getting
encoded as KOI8. BICBW.

tom

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