krasota ([personal profile] rootofnewt) wrote2003-06-27 03:07 pm

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Opera seems to be handling Cyrillic just fine.

As a test, I shall share the song boy wrote and frequently sings. Since he doesn't know Russian, it doesn't make much sense. Well, it makes sense in that he's silly.

кошка, селёдка, я хочу мороженое
ты смешная
где мой людоед?
ты... ты меня... ты меня любишь.

Looks geek to me.

[identity profile] lightning-rose.livejournal.com 2003-06-27 11:28 am (UTC)(link)

Or should that be Greek?

Re: Looks geek to me.

[identity profile] krasota.livejournal.com 2003-06-27 11:35 am (UTC)(link)
perhaps ASCII? ;)

Do Cyrillic fonts normally display with your browser? If not, I'm not worried. If so, I'll worry a little, though this works perfectly fine on my machine in Opera, as do other Russian sites.

rrrar

Re: Looks geek to me.

[identity profile] hellsop.livejournal.com 2003-06-27 12:59 pm (UTC)(link)
肺! Works fine!

Then again, this is a to a Winders version of Opera, but it comes out good.

Re: Looks geek to me.

[identity profile] lightning-rose.livejournal.com 2003-06-27 01:57 pm (UTC)(link)

I dunno. If I can't read a website, I usually stay away. :)

Here's an idea, give me the url of a website to visit and I'll grab the window as an image, and send you a small sample as a gif. That way you can see exactly how it looks on my browser.

Re: Looks geek to me.

[identity profile] krasota.livejournal.com 2003-06-27 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
http://music.gothic.ru/main.htm

it's a mix of english and russian.

i finally just went and reinstalled all my cyrillic fonts, along with installing some newer apple cyrillic support (cRussify)... it works in IE now. we'll have to see if Word still works, too. it didn't earlier.

woohooo!

[identity profile] stmaybe.livejournal.com 2003-06-27 12:07 pm (UTC)(link)
well what do you know! i actually recognize a few words & apparently remember my alphabet well enough to sound out the ones i don't remember. i haven't completely forgotten everything from russian classes after all :)

[identity profile] lady-lion.livejournal.com 2003-06-27 01:53 pm (UTC)(link)
It's displaying just fine for me (in Explorer in OS X). I could test it out in Netscape, too, as well as in OS 9 (which, actually, is what I usually use - I rarely use OS X, but you happened to catch me on the day that I did).

I was really curious as to what it said, so I made my boy come in here to translate. He said that it didn't make much sense. ;) I said that that was why I wanted to know what it said. He understood some of it and read that off for me. Then, I realized that there was something way too funny about having someone who speaks broken Russian partially translating nonsensical Russian for me. ;P

Speaking of which, he had a couple of classes in Russian at the Academy (which is how he got his basic Russian skills). Is that where you learned Russian? I brought that up, so he's wondering if you might have had the same teacher (in different years, though).

[identity profile] krasota.livejournal.com 2003-06-27 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Yep. Ms. Hobar, in my time. She's now Mrs. Rogers, though I would call her Mrs. X, as she was just starting to date Mr. Rogers now and wouldn't reveal his name to us for fear we'd hunt him down and torment him. So she called him Mr. X. ;)

I then majored in Russian/Area Studies (a joint Int'l Service/Language/Lit/History degree program) at The American University in DC.

A translation:
cat, herring, i like ice cream
you're silly (ridiculous)
where's my ogre?
you... you (me)... you love me.

[identity profile] lady-lion.livejournal.com 2003-06-28 07:31 am (UTC)(link)
Yep. Ms. Hobar, in my time. She's now Mrs. Rogers, though I would call her Mrs. X, as she was just starting to date Mr. Rogers now and wouldn't reveal his name to us for fear we'd hunt him down and torment him. So she called him Mr. X. ;)
-Yes, that is the same teacher that he had for Russian! How funny...

I then majored in Russian/Area Studies (a joint Int'l Service/Language/Lit/History degree program) at The American University in DC.
-Oh, cool! I had no idea that you had studied so much Russian. (Actually, I had no idea that you had studied any Russian until you posted about your problems with the characters displaying properly.)

A translation:
cat, herring, i like ice cream
you're silly (ridiculous)
where's my ogre?
you... you (me)... you love me.

-*lol* That's just... great. ;P

Also, here's the "verdict." I have tried viewing this entry in both Explorer 5.1 and Netscape 7.0, in both OS X and OS 9. In both browsers, it worked fine in OS X; in both browsers, I just got a string of ?s in OS 9.

[identity profile] lightning-rose.livejournal.com 2003-06-27 02:07 pm (UTC)(link)

As I write this, I'm in Mozilla 1.2.1 running under Red Hat Linux v9,
and looks the same as my windoze/ie system.

[identity profile] firinel.livejournal.com 2003-06-27 03:22 pm (UTC)(link)
looks fine to me- Firebird under debian 3.0(woody). I've no idea what it says, but it's rendering fine.

[identity profile] queensheba.livejournal.com 2003-06-27 03:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Is the last line something like "you love me?"
"

[identity profile] krasota.livejournal.com 2003-06-27 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
yep. :)

[identity profile] xiane.livejournal.com 2003-06-27 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Looks fine in Win 98.

Yay!

safari, too!

[identity profile] aracknee.livejournal.com 2003-07-01 01:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Looks great in the new Safari 1.0 on X, also! Good to know.