Displaying Cyrillic in Thunderbird
Gord McFee
How does one display Cyrillic characters in Thunderbird? No matter
what I set character encoding to, it doesn't work.
Thanks for any help.
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Best regards
Gord McFee
Tony Mechelynck
> I am slightly afraid the answer to this is obvious, but I can't find it.
> How does one display Cyrillic characters in Thunderbird? No matter
> what I set character encoding to, it doesn't work.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
1. Make sure you have at least one font with Cyrillic glyphs installed on your
computer. ("Courier New", if installed, is often a good guess.)
2. Tools => Options => Display => Fonts & Encodings => Fonts...
Fonts for [Cyrillic |v]
Set up proper fonts (with Cyrillic glyphs; see step 1) for default, serif,
sans-serif, monospace etc.
UNtick "Apply the default encoding to all incoming messages".
3. Any Cyrillic email with a proper "Content-Type" header, e.g.
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
Content-Type: text/html; charset=koi8-r
etc., should now be displayed correctly.
Here is an example: the following two non-blank lines are in Russian.
Всего хорошего,
Тоня.
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eat it nevertheless."
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Gord McFee
> Gord McFee wrote:
>> I am slightly afraid the answer to this is obvious, but I can't find it.
>> How does one display Cyrillic characters in Thunderbird? No matter
>> what I set character encoding to, it doesn't work.
>>
>> Thanks for any help.
>>
>
> 1. Make sure you have at least one font with Cyrillic glyphs installed on your
> computer. ("Courier New", if installed, is often a good guess.)
>
> 2. Tools => Options => Display => Fonts & Encodings => Fonts...
>
> Fonts for [Cyrillic |v]
>
> Set up proper fonts (with Cyrillic glyphs; see step 1) for default, serif,
> sans-serif, monospace etc.
>
> UNtick "Apply the default encoding to all incoming messages".
>
> 3. Any Cyrillic email with a proper "Content-Type" header, e.g.
>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
>
> Content-Type: text/html; charset=koi8-r
>
> etc., should now be displayed correctly.
>
> Here is an example: the following two non-blank lines are in Russian.
>
> Всего хорошего,
> Тоня.
Many thanks, that did it.
pau...@compuserve.com
Yes, it someone sends correctly prepared Cyrillic message, you'd see
it.
Though, Tony did not mention how _you_ should prepare such message, so
if you are still in need for that please see my page
"Cyrillic(Russian) in Thunderbird/Firefox/Mozilla":
http://RusWin.net/cyr_moz.htm
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Regards,
Paul
http://Kbd.RusWin.net
Gord McFee
> Hello!
>
> Yes, it someone sends correctly prepared Cyrillic message, you'd see
> it. Though, Tony did not mention how _you_ should prepare such
> message, so if you are still in need for that please see my page
> "Cyrillic(Russian) in Thunderbird/Firefox/Mozilla":
> http://RusWin.net/cyr_moz.htm
Most interesting. Thanks. Is there a way to display Cyrillic on a
message-by-message basis?
Robert M Jones
да!
I typed this with my Bulgarian keyboard setting then changed "view" -
"character encoding" - utf-8 and that seemed to work. Фкш But I'm not an
expert!
Довиждане!
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Tony Mechelynck
> Gord McFee wrote:
>> On 7/21/2007 1:22 PM, pau...@compuserve.com wrote:
>>
>>> Hello!
>>>
>>> Yes, it someone sends correctly prepared Cyrillic message, you'd see
>>> it. Though, Tony did not mention how _you_ should prepare such
>>> message, so if you are still in need for that please see my page
>>> "Cyrillic(Russian) in Thunderbird/Firefox/Mozilla":
>>> http://RusWin.net/cyr_moz.htm
>>
>> Most interesting. Thanks. Is there a way to display Cyrillic on a
>> message-by-message basis?
>>
>
> да!
> I typed this with my Bulgarian keyboard setting then changed "view" -
> "character encoding" - utf-8 and that seemed to work. Фкш But I'm not an
> expert!
> Довиждане!
>
Messages with correct headers should now be displayed correctly, as you (Gord)
can (hopefully) see. _Composing_ messages in Cyrillic may be harder. Here are
a few possibilities:
- Changing your keyboard by means of an OS "International Keyboard"
application or similar
- Clipboard pasting from an application (such as gvim) which has facilities
for international editing
- The abcTajpu extension.
Best regards,
Tony.
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Gord McFee
Yes, it displays correctly. Thanks to you both. I now believe the
message that wouldn't display correctly earlier had the wrong headers.
Thanks for your patience.
pau...@compuserve.com
wrote:
> ...
> _Composing_ messages in Cyrillic may be harder. Here are
> a few possibilities:
>
> - Changing your keyboard by means of an OS "International Keyboard"
> application or similar
>
> - Clipboard pasting from an application (such as gvim) which has facilities
> for international editing
>
> - The abcTajpu extension.
It's really only 1st option that people use OR even they need Cyrillic
very seldom, they use Virtual Keyboard. That is:
- either a person enables system keyboard say for Russian - "RU" on
taskbar will work same way as French (when "FR") or English (when it's
"EN").
Layout can be Standard one or Phonetic/homophonic (E-E,A-A,T-T,...).
the instruction is at http://RusWin.net/kbd.htm
OR
- they just use Virtual Cyrillic Keyboard - 100% simulates system
input - same layouts, Standard and Phonetic, same way of typing - via
regular keyboard (though mouse-based input works too):
http://Kbd.RusWin.net
Also that Cyrillic typing in Thunderbird has to happen in a message
preparation window where Cyrillic encoding is a present one - as
explained on that page at http://RusWin.net/cyr_moz.htm
Otherwise a person sees normal Cyrillic while typing but whoever
receives such e-mail will see just question marks...
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Regards,
Paul Gorodyansky
"Cyrillic (Russian): instructions for Windows and Internet":
http://RusWin.net
P D Sterling
is Anglo-centric and so unfriendly to diacriticals. Sheesh.
Regards,
P D Sterling
Dallas TX
Tony Mechelynck
> Thanks for this posting; I'm really frustrated that so much of computing
> is Anglo-centric and so unfriendly to diacriticals. Sheesh.
>
> Regards,
>
> P D Sterling
> Dallas TX
Yeah, you bet the result would have been different if Bill Gator and Steve
NoJobs had been from Berlin and Montreal instead of both from the US West
Coast. At least Linus Torvalds is a Swedish-speaking Finnish national, and
SuSE was created in Germany before it was finally bought by Novell.
Best regards,
Tony.
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