TEI Mandelstam

Today I was at a U Virginia e-text web page for Mandelstam: the HTML declares the character encoding as iso-8859-1 but it is not.  To my amazement the characters appear by setting the browser view to use char encoding KOI8-R.  Setting to Western Windows-1252 gave what at first appeared to be Cyrillic in column three (the columns are 'phonetic' Russian, English transl. and Russian) but in truth was Greek.

Here is their page note:

Creation of machine-readable version: Bruce A. McClelland
Creation of digital images: Bruce A. McClelland, Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia
Conversion to TEI2-conformant markup: University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center
University of Virginia Library
Charlottesville, Va.

What to do when so much money has been spent so unwisely?

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Swinburne Virtual Library

Here is another grotesque example to illustrate why I prefer Curl to HTML for poetry markup: "Before Parting" cannot display without a stanza being broken by page numbering.

There is a pop-up item for document information, but no means to suppress the intrusive pagination.

To convince yourself, ask your web browser to view/display the page source. Hmmm.

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