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An image of a post envelope with address written in Krokozyabry. The envelope contained a Harry Potter book. This letter was sent to a Russian student by her French friend, who manually wrote the address that he received by e-mail. His e-mail client, unfortunately, was not set up correctly to display Cyrillic characters, so they were substituted with diacritic symbols from the Western charset (ISO-8859-1) The original message was in KOI8-R.

This work is in the public domain because it has no copyright within the Russian Federation, and possibly other jurisdictions. This is because the copyright is disclaimed under Article 8 (Works not Protected by Copyright) of the Law of the Russian Federation on Copyright and Neighboring Rights. Specifically excluded from copyright protection under this provision are official documents (laws, court decisions, other texts of legislative, administrative or judicial character) and official translations thereof; State emblems and official signs (flags, armorial bearings, decorations, monetary signs and other State symbols and official signs); works of folklore; communications concerning events and facts that have informational character.

Depiction of informational data (the address itself in wrong charset), and the informational text created by a state Post office (its transliteration).

One of many forum/blog posts that have the story (in Russian): http://forum.mamaska.ru/index.php?act=ST&f=4&t=93&st=0

The address was deciphered by the postal employees and delivered successfully. Some of the correct characters (red) were written above the wrong ones (black).

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