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Frequently
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When I switch CyrKBD keyboard driver into "KOI" mode
characters printed on a screen don't look like characters I wanted to print.
Sometimes they look like some symbols, sometimes they are Cyrillic characters,
but not those that are assigned to the buttons I have pressed. |
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Current font doesn't correspond to the chosen
encoding. I would like to remind those users who have experienced such a
problem: selected font must support encoding with which you are currently
working or using which the original text was written. This rule, though,
doesn't apply on Latin characters, digits and majority of punctuation signs.
For example, if you have chosen "KOI" you must select appropriate font with
"KOI-8" support, like "Cyrillic Office KOI-8" or any other, for Cyrillic
letters to be displayed properly. This inconvenience can be avoided by using
"UNICODE". Since Windows operating system has native support for "UNICODE",
choosing this option will cause an automatic loading of the appropriate
character set in the font, or another font that has a support for Cyrillic
characters if current font has no such support. Therefore we recommend using
CP1251 (Windows), KOI-8 and CP866 (DOS) encodings primarily while working with
e-mail or when you need to use characters from the font that doesn't have
support for "UNICODE". |
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I was using "UNICODE" while writing e-mail message,
containing Cyrillic symbols, to my friend, but all he got was a text with all
characters to be a question mark. Same thing happens when he sends me a message
- all text is written with one character - question mark. What can I do to fix
this problem and is it possible to restore the content of the original message? |
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It's easy to fix this problem. But, unfortunately,
it's impossible to restore the content of the original message. The thing is
that in order to reach its destination e-mail message has to go through number
of different e-mail servers. If any of those servers has no "UNICODE" support
message will be corrupted. To avoid this problem you have to use either CP1251
(Windows) or KOI-8 encodings - in this case message will not be corrupted. We
do not recommend using CP866 (DOS) encoding because it's obsolete and therefore
some symbols may not be displayed properly. |
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I'm using CP1251 (Windows) and corresponding fonts
to send / receive e-mail messages. But when I'm getting a respond back from the
person I've sent a message to this respond message looks strange: sometimes
it's a set of symbols, sometimes it's Cyrillic letters but meaninglessly
scrambled. What is the problem and is it possible to restore the original
message's text? |
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In this situation both fixing the problem and
restoring original text are easy accomplished tasks. All that needs to be done
is setting an appropriate font (see also one of the answers above about fonts
and encodings). First of all, it's very helpful to know which encoding has been
used to write the original message. But even if you don't know that it's not a
big problem. Here is a couple of hints on how to determine possible encoding
based on how text looks: 1. If letter case looks the way it should be (upper
case letters are where upper case letters should be and lower case letters are
where lower case letters should be) it's most likely either CP1251 (Windows) or
CP866 (DOS) encodings. Here, if majority of letters look like letters (but with
dots, triangles, etc. on top or bottom of the base letter) it's most likely to
be CP1251 (Windows). If you can often see symbols in text (like paragraph sign,
cent sign, trade mark sign, etc.) it's most likely to be CP866 (DOS); 2. If
letter case looks opposite to how it should be (upper case letters are where
lower case letters should be and lower case letters are where upper case
letters should be) it's most likely KOI-8 encoding. By setting an appropriate
font for the selection or for the whole text you will restore the content of
the original message. But even if you have chosen a wrong font it will not
corrupt the message. Just choose another font. |
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I'm using KOI-8 and "Outlook Express" for e-mail
communication. So far I have no problems with sending / receiving messages
except one inconvenience: every time I get an e-mail message I have to manually
change font to the appropriate one, in my case with KOI-8 support, otherwise
Cyrillic letters are not displayed correctly. Is there a way to set a default
font which will be loaded automatically every time I need to read a message? |
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Most of the modern programs allow setting up a
default font. How to do this depends on specific program's requirements. In
case with "Outlook Express" you need to go to the menu "Tools->Option",
click on tab "Read", press the button "Fonts" and set the font you want to be
default in "Proportional font" field. Now all messages will be displayed using
this font by default. |
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