Cool stuff.

I enjoyed those. Thanks for posting!

An American Russian interviewing a Finnish Russian in Sweden!
Phil, do Americans think you have a noticeable accent, and where would they guess you're from?

Speaking of your Russian, it's fine, you don't seem to have an accent (yet) and you don't make stupid mistakes. The only thing that gives you away is the way you say some abbreviations and proper names. Russians would usually say (imo) 4on4 = четыре на четыре, 2on2 = два на два, 1on1 = дуэль And Arena (as in Q3A) = арена, not are-ee-nah, I remember you pronounced it this way in the pub in Moscow and people didn't understand you

Whoever thinks ISO-8859-1 is a good choice of encoding for a Pan-European website should find himself a job as janitor, not webmaster.

Thanks Tonik, usually the Russians here stick to bad English
-But I'll fix it just for you, even tho it has nothing to do with ISO-8859-1, all comments are being parsed before they are shown. And your & ends up as &

If the form's encoding was utf-8, the browser wouldn't have to resort to the & codes and would just use plain utf-8 (that's my understanding anyway).

Alternatively, of course, the user input sanitizing script could be taught not to escape the &'s in &#xxx; codes

"Phil, do Americans think you have a noticeable accent, and where would they guess you're from?"

To me, as a native English speaker, he has a noticeable American/Russian accent.

Zalon: please made all coments in UTF8/UCS2 i like to translate .fi and .se guy with google.tanstale.com

LOL !!!
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I don't think changing to UTF-8 will fix it, this doesn't look like Russian to me.

4on4 = четыре на четыре, 2on2 = два на два, 1on1 = дуэль And Arena (as in Q3A) = арена

It was posted with the site set to UTF-8. It works in the forum, and the forum is set to ISO-8859-1.

I think I have to fix it in the bbcode parser. It's just never been an issue, since the rules state that you have to post in English.

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Well, English is not the native language of the majority of the audience so it certainly won't hurt to be able to post a word or two in one's native language without resorting to transliteration.

I'll certainly appreciate it if you can fix it

qw.nu is english only

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Tonik thanks

Проверяем Русский язык ...

most people think my American has some accent, very few pin it down immediately as Russian. Some people think it is New York style english (which is true also)

Hmm... It fucked up for me also, and my cyrillic works anywhere else (including charset.ru for instance)