Re: [newbie] Sylpheed and cyrillic - third try

[Vahur Lokk]

On Tuesday 03 June 2003 15:02, Stephen Kuhn wrote:

 Wow - I would have assumed (key word = assumed) that if you
 have the ability to read cyrillic in any other application
 (and the font set is installed) you'd be able to read it in
 ANY application under ANY window manager or desktop...

Jeez how glad I was if it was so! But for me it has never 
worked. 
Russians use at least three different encodings. Docs they send 
are some windows encoding, OOo handles this OK if the fonts are 
there. Mail is usually KOI8, KMail reads it OK but no other 
mail client that I've tried (mutt, pine, sylpheed - I look for 
lightweight). Other KDE apps handle cyrillic with various 
success, depending on where it appears (app window - yes, 
titlebar usually no, etc.etc.) I have actually considered 
changing to ALT Linux (Russian distro) but this has its own 
problems plus their community mail list is Russian-only and I 
am veeery slow on a cyrillic keyboard.

Wahur

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[newbie] Sylpheed and cyrillic - third try

[Vahur Lokk]

Hello!

This list has been full of praise about Sylpheed and 
Sulpheed-claws. And as much as I've tried it, sylpheed is worth 
the praise, too. Except for one thing - from time to time I get 
some Russian mail and Sylpheed shows only mumbo-jumbo instead 
of cyrillic letters. No mention of cyrillic in encondings menu 
item as well :-(
From the official site I got the impression that I should 
compile it with some specific options but there was no mention 
about what these options might be. Admin of sylpheed list does 
not let my message in as I dont want to subscribe to another 
list just for one mail to get through.
So can anyone help me here. I really want to get rid of kmail.

Wahur

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