Cyrillic encoding
Here's the story:
a Russian girl asked her French friend to send her a book. She sent him her address in an email. The friend put the book in an envelope and wrote her Russian friend's address on the envelope. Which is not an easy task because the address is spelled in Cyrillic. And Cyrillic is a strange animal: It consists only in vowels. And since you don't go very far with a few vowels, Russians use a lot of accents (diacritic marks) to differentiate them. Pfeewww! How difficult a language!
http://community.livejournal.com/velik_moguch/242083.html
(through roxfan)
3 Comments:
Seriously funny!
As my colleague would say:
"Cyrillic? What's that!?"
"Hmmm... Been to Greece on a holiday? Yes? Ok, what you saw written there was in cyrillic."
"Whoa! All this time I wondered why there was so much kid's scrawls there!"
Which is not an easy task because the address is spelled in Cyrillic. And Cyrillic is a strange animal: It consists only in vowels.
Not quite--Cyrillic contains both vowels and consonants, like most languages.
It looks like the French friend was using an email client that didn't understand Russian, so it displayed the address with the wrong code page, and all the Cyrillic letters came out as accented Latin vowels.
Очень плохо!
Er... Tim, it's a joke! The whole point is the friend didn't even realize there was a display problem ;-)
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