In cyrillic actually 4 cyrillic codepages (or charsets) are used:
(1) Windows-1251;
(2) KOI8-R (KOI8-U for Ukrainian);
(3) ISO 8859-5 and
(4) DOS 866.
Two main encodings are Win-1251 & KOI8.

Often the charset isn't specified in website HTML source, the site text then seems to be totally unreadable.

In such case MSIE user may switch encoding _manually_ ( View | Encoding ...), but
K-Meleon seems not to give any possibility to switch between different cyrillic encodings.

Can anybody help with this problem?

Leo.

ok, i don't know much about character sets, but possibly a macro like

set1 {
togglepref(STRING, intl.charset.default, "Windows-1251");
}
set2 {
togglepref(STRING, intl.charset.default, "KOI8-R");
}
etc...

would work? you could then add them to the View menu for easy switching.

(the reason for using togglepref instead of setpref is because in some cases it produces immediate results where setpref doesn't... i don't know if this would be one of those cases or not.)

i seem to remember a thread somewhat related to this... a search might find it.