Happy 50th Anniversary: Sputnik

[Lance]

Sputnik I launched on October 4, 1957.

[KLA2]

Sergey Pavlovich Korolyov
Серге́й Па́влович Королёв

[Мастер]

Sergey Pavlovich Korolyov
Ñåðãǻé Ïà́âëîâè÷ Êîðîë¸â

Êëàòó :P

[Enzo]

EI-EI-O

I remember Sputnik. All of a sudden there was all kinds of -nik stuff. We already had beatniks.

Then the USA trying to catch up. ENjoyed watching the steady stream of Vanguards blowing up on the launch pad.

[KLA2]

Sergey Pavlovich Korolyov
Ñåðãǻé Ïà́âëîâè÷ Êîðîë¸â

Êëàòó :P

Ok, KOS. You care to share with those of us less cosmopolitan? :?

(Or in this case, cosmoSpolitan)

And what is that avatar? The lemur with the X-ray eyes? Svengalli squirrel?

[Мастер]

Êëàòó :P

Ok, KOS. You care to share with those of us less cosmopolitan? :?

(Or in this case, cosmoSpolitan)

Kocmoc?

But what I originally wrote is KLA2. I don't know if it displays properly on all computers...

And what is that avatar? The lemur with the X-ray eyes? Svengalli squirrel?

It's a lemur, but I can't even remember why I put that up...

[KLA2]

I guess my computer does not have the character sets needed. The odd thing is that even my text quoted by you ("foreign" characters only) is very different. Wish I could take a "screen shot" of what I see and post but ... don't know how. Ah, well. :?

[Мастер]

I guess my computer does not have the character sets needed. The odd thing is that even my text quoted by you ("foreign" characters only) is very different. Wish I could take a "screen shot" of what I see and post but ... don't know how. Ah, well. :?

I have to figure out how these things work. And not just boards, I have the same issue with email. I know a few tricks that seem to work most of the time, but it's still kind of hit-ot-miss. Posting Arabic at apollohoax is rather dicey.

The word I posted should have looked like:

Klaty

except for the "l", which I can't render properly in the Latin character set. It should look like a pi, with one of the legs bent a bit. Did it?

[KLA2]

No. Two "e'"s, an "a", and two "o"'s All with accent marks whose names I am too ignorant to know, and too lazy to look up. :P

Why Enzo said

EI-EI-O

Guess he saw the same thing.

And Sergey Pavlovich Korolyov written in (I assume) Russian (yeah, I know - Cyrillic) (Серге́й Па́влович Королёв) was equally garbled.

So much for inter-cultural communication.

Let's hope that international diplomacy does not depend on accurate computer character set conversion. Or maybe it has ... :?

[Мастер]

Huh. This is weird. If I set the board language to Russian, then the Russian that others post looks fine to me, and the Russian that I post also looks fine to me. However, the Russian I post looks like crap to everyone else. But when I switch back to English, I can post what I posted before:

Клату

and it should look fine to everyone, me included. (Does it?)

[Enzo]

Yes, THAT looks like KLA2 in Cyrillic.

[KLA2]

Huh. This is weird. If I set the board language to Russian, then the Russian that others post looks fine to me, and the Russian that I post also looks fine to me. However, the Russian I post looks like crap to everyone else. But when I switch back to English, I can post what I posted before:

Клату

and it should look fine to everyone, me included. (Does it?)

Yes. Now it looks like "KnaTy', (except the "n" looks like "pi" and a flourish on the "K") :)