Now e-mail becomes one of the most effective and
inexpensive ways of communication. But there exist one unpleasant problem, which may
seriously reduce the productivity of work. The fact is that in various computers the set
of Russian letters is coded according to various standarts. For example, various codes are
used in DOS and Windows, not to mention the "historical" KOI-8. As a result
serious problems may appear. You may try all available codes but the message will be
nonreadable all the same.
In the most cases Reanimator can solve this problem. Reading the text, it tries
various coding combinations (about ten) until the correct Russian words appear. If not,
the original e-mail coding was changed incorrectly during the way - so it is necessary to
look for hundreds of variants. If the original e-mail coding was changed incorrectly
several times - Reanimator will try thousands…hundreds of thousands of variants..
as many as necessary. As a result the original message in normal Russian language appears.
In the most complicated cases Reanimator may work rather long, but don't interrupt
it's work - may be after 400 000 variants anything will be more clear. Some messages will
not be decoded at all. It is possible, that during the transaction the eighth bit has been
"lost", that is the part of code table with Russian letters have disappeared. In
such a case you may send the following e-mail:
"Nichego ne chitaetsja! Shlite text kak dvoichnij fail (attachment), please!"
Reanimator has another useful function - transliteration, which is the possibility
to translate (if ordered), Russian text from Roman alphabet to Cyrillic and back. This is
necessary for correspondence with Russian-language users who have not the Russian-language
support.
To work with Reanimator is easy. After loading the program, its icon appears on
task panel. Click the icon and reconstruction of the Clipboard content will begin. The
content of any file may be reconstructed in the same way. Reanimator is a small and
outwardly imperceptible program, which is, however, absolutely required for normal
functioning of the modern office.
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