>>I've just found the website of brothers Strugatsky (А и Б Стругацкие) and was amazed that all of their books are available for download. Which is great... except that they are encoded in, I think, KOI8-R (but I could be wrong).
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>>Is there a function to convert that to any of the other standards - UTF-8, W-1251, some of the ISO cyrillic standards?
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>Dragan,
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>Encoding varies depending on the site where they are available. But no matter what is the format, you can copy the document content and PasteSpecial it into MS Word. Unformatted Unicode is available there.

That part is not the problem - I have several unicode capable editors at hand. It's just that none of them recognize this text as any specific codepage. I get stuff like this:

     îŰ  ßĘĄąźĘ şá  ÔÓáó¬ą ó  »Űźýş«Č  ߬óąÓʬą  »«Ą  «¬şáČĘ  žáó«Ąß¬«ú«
Ń»Óá󟹺ʴ Ę »ąÓąóáÓĘóáźĘ «íąĄ -- ¬áŽĄŰę »«-ßó«ąČŃ.  öąĄ´ šĘÔáź  "ŐĘÔąŽ-
úÓáĄß¬Ęą  ş«ó«ßÔĘ",  ČąĄźąşş«  󹥴  »«  ßÔÓ«š¬áČ šąÓşŰČ şąÓážúĘíáţÚĘČß´
»áźýŠąČ;  ČÓášşŰę éĘÔý¬á Ő«Óşąąó źąźą´ź «íŃÓąóáóŔĘą ąú« šąÓşŰą  žáČŰßźŰ;
ŁĄĘ¬ ÇČ»ąÓ´ş ß»ÓáŔĘóáź, É«Čáş ÄęÓá-ÄęÓá «Ôóąšáź; á ´, şą ÔąÓ´´ ĄÓáú«Šąş-
ş«ú« óӹȹşĘ,  žáú«Óáź ßąíą »«ĄČŰŔ¬Ę.  Ő«ČáÓ«ó Ę ßźą»şąę  »«íźĘž«ßÔĘ  şą
íŰź«, «şĘ Ô«Žą, óąÓ«´Ôş«, »ąÓąóáÓĘóáźĘ «íąĄ.

Looks like Koi8-R to me.Well, since the same text is available online, I can gather a sufficient sample from which to build a translation string for chrtran(). I just thought someone may have one already.