[Dictionarysearch] Adding a string with a request in cyrillic characters...

[Jaap A. Haitsma]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:50 PM, Johnny Graterol Guevara
<jgratero at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm adding the following string for a request in a Russian-English
> dictionary, from Rambler:
>
> http://www.rambler.ru/dict/scripts/go.cgi?where=en&src=js&query=$
>
> Nevertheless, every single time, my request is returned with nothing but
> gibberish. For example, when I request the meaning of словарь (slovar,
> dictionary) the search results are ÑЃÐ»Ð¾Ð²Ð°ÑЂÑŒ
>
> Any ideas?
>
Yes, problem is the encoding you have to use for search. dictionary
search uses UTF-8 but not all sites support this, and it is not
possible as far as I know to automatically detect which encoding a
site wants.

Jaap
Jaap