Help on using the character encoder - decoder:

Background:

Several internet and email servers around the world have no support for Cyrillic language encoding of characters. This means that whenever information is sent electronically from a server that supports Cyrillic to a server that does not support it (e.g., receiving Russian language email in the US), each character is mapped to the character encoding that the server supports, which is usually plain ASCII encoding.

Character Encodings:

There are three main character encodings commonly supported over the internet. Whenever these Cyrillic characters are encoded in ASCII, they will look similar to these strings of characters:

Using the decoder:

Choosing the 'Automatic' option for Original Encoding will usually determine which encoding was originally used. For the output encoding, choose whichever encoding suits you best. These three encodings are generally supported by most internet browsers. If you want to paste the results into another document, choose the output encoding of the final document.

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Thanks to Stefan Mashkevich for providing Perl source code for decoder.