[RAS] strange russian letter problem

[Ivan Kurmanov]

2011/11/14 Christian Zimmermann <zimmermann at stlouisfed.org>:
>>> All the ones here are susceptible:
>>> http://edirc.repec.org/data/derasru.html
>>
>> How do you know? I've checked these ones and I don't see a cyrillic
>> letter in their name:
>>
>> Arslanov, Vasily
>> Artem'eva, Lidiya
>> Baranenkova, Taisiya
>> Baranov, Eduard
>
> Very low tech answer: when I get the confirmation email and read it using
> putty using a windows machine, the name appears with an illegible blurb for
> all capital A's. And in those cases, the search does not find there works,
> even though they got the right name variations (except for that letter).
>
> Try with Аnatolij Ivanovich Аrkhipov. A manual search for A. Arkhipov (as
> cut-and-pasted form the name variations) yields no result. When I type A.
> Arkhipov myself, there are 7 results, including 3 with the exact name
> variation...

The Arkhipov case is clear -- that's the one you've pointed to in the
original case (by forwarding the confirmation mail). You seem to have
claimed all of the registrations at
http://edirc.repec.org/data/derasru.html have the same problem. I ask:
how do you know that all of them have it? Because I checked some and
found no problem. Maybe there's just 5 or 7 of them and, then, is it
worth bothering?


Anyway, a check for combining cyrillic & latin letters can be done,
and I can do it after the already agreed upon items under a separate
statement of work.

-i