AlexPGP's Corner

One of the figures in the document I was working on today had a figure that underwent some kind of warp, resulting in the conversion of CP 1251 (single-byte Cyrillic) characters into CP 1252 (single-byte "Latin 1") characters.

I was now faced with the prospect of undoing the conversion, taking something like, um,

ñèñòåìíûé àíàëèç ðèñêà

and rendering it as something readable, i.e.

системный анализ риска

Fortunately, I not only covered this particular issue in my presentation titled Navigating the Cyrillic "Swamp" made at the 2002 ATA Conference in Atlanta (has it really been almost ten years?), but I also kept track of the associated PowerPoint presentation, which helped me "decode" the gibberish in the figure back into Russian.

Going after a little of that wow! factor, y'dig?

No turn left unstoned! :^)

Cheers...