README, of sorts

• The distinctive feature of this converter is that you do not need to know which encoding the text was originally in. Just select "Automatically" and choose your desired encoding. (If, however, you still want to be sure you're the in the driver's seat :-) — select "Manually" and choose two encodings.)

• In Automatic mode, it analyzes the text first. If it contains more than 75% Latin characters, it is assumed that the text is in Latin and it is reverse transliterated (from Russian; for Ukrainian, select "Manually" and "TRANSLIT UKR"). Otherwise, it is assumed that the text is Cyrillic and it is converted from the original encoding (figured out by the converter) into the desired one.

• If the "Set output encoding" box is checked (default), the output is rendered in HTML with the target encoding being set as the charset attribute of the META tag. If it is unchecked, the output comes as plain text.

• When converting from translit, any text enclosed between the "Translit off" and "Translit on" characters will not be converted. E.g., with "Translit off" = "[" and "Translit on" = "]", "Tezis [Windows sucks] stal poslovicej" will be treated properly. The defaults are "Translit off" = "Translit on" = "|".

• Also when converting from translit, you can avoid conversion of two-letter sequences into their Russian one-letter equivalents by inserting a tilde (~). E.g., C~hinvali, Sik~h, ras~hititel' etc. (The converter knows many common words, like voshod or whatever, so by no means is the tilde always needed; if you think of a common word like that which it misinterprets, please tell me.)

• Relative links in URL's are not supported (but this may be added if there is demand)

• The engine converting from Cyrillic encodings is a Perl script cyr-conv

• The engine converting from Latin (reverse transliteration) is two Perl scripts, lat-koi (for Russian) and lat-koi-ukr (for Ukrainian). For more information, see here.

• It has been tested to a fair extent, but some bugs may still remain. If something doesn't work the way you think it should, look here for more information