[RAS] strange russian letter problem

['Christian Zimmermann']

On Tue, 15 Nov 2011, Ivan Kurmanov wrote:

> 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?

Well, I noticed it for all capital A for authors of that institute. 
Somebody must be registering them.

>
>
> 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 have no further budget for this.

>
> -i
>

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