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I've been exchanging e-mail for about a year in cyrillic, but the
methods have been very system-dependent. I've been corresponding with
a programmer in Russia who has written a program to send e-mail
in mixed English/Russian using roman/cyrillic using only 7-bit
characters.  The program works now, but the user must highlight areas
to be displayed in cyrillic. The untranslated cyrillic is readable
(with some difficulty). We are now trying to automate the translation
process, so that text typed by the sender in cyrillic appears to the reader
in cyrillic.  That should be completed in a few weeks.  

The next step is to a MIME reader that will handle multiple languages
or character sets - dependent only upon both parties having the 
appropriate fonts and character encoding schemes. 

The program already has a user configurable keyboard. Currently it runs
on a pc under windows, but I'm looking to port it to X-windows and
motif. One of the problems with cyrillic is that there are too many
standards. The encoding used at least has the benefit of being common
in Russia on pc's. Extensions to use other fonts will be an interesting
experience.  The program should be available for beta testing hopefully
in August.  I will post again when the program is available.

I'd also be interested in hearing from people working on MIME, on
pc's, and anyone interesting in extensions for Mac's or Amigas.
Thanks
-Dave
saranen@epx.cis.umn.edu