Not with the embedded webfonts the theme uses. The embedded webfonts have been limited to latin characters to reduce the filesize, but I'm not 100% sure that all of the fonts would support Cyrillic characters even if that wasn't the case. The fonts in use are Museo Sans (for the body copy), Almagro (for the nav links), Unnamed Melody (for the sidebar titles, post titles and links), and Margarosa (for the site name and tagline) if you want to look up those fonts for the full character maps. That said, you could remove the line to call those fonts in the header.php and use the default fallback fonts (or any other fonts of your choice) to support Cyrillic characters.

Thanks for commenting, Sean. I used to do tech support, so I know exactly what it's like to deal with pissed off customers. I also know what it's like to flog customers with canned responses because you're too lazy to look deeper into the issue or because you assume one issue and miss the root problem (or, at least, the root of the customer's complaint). It's just frustrating, as someone who does their business online, to wait for a response only to have the same thing parroted back again. But I appreciate the effort to make amends.

Thanks, in part, to your recommendation :)
The support staff at HostingMatters has been super-awesome, too -- fast and doesn't insult me by assuming I don't know what I'm talking about.

Ha! The irony of that is that WPShout has been in my blogroll for a looong time ;)

That is the greatest thing ever.

I was telling my wife last night: the first day I felt like I was on Tier 1. Yesterday I felt more like I was on Tier 2. Let's hope I make it to Tier 3 next week. :)

This problem is now fixed in 1.0.1.

We're aware of the issue. It doesn't create "headers already sent" messages, problems with syndication feeds or other issues, so it shouldn't be a problem. It's now listed in the official WordPress plugin repository http://www.wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ie-6-coun... so if you want to grab that version, you'll get an update notification when we track down those 2 unexpected characters.

That started with The Loafmen. None of us were virtuosos at our chosen instrument (well, with one possible exception). So part of the goal of the Loafmen was to play something that wasn't going to limit us due to our lack of ability. As Rob put it, "I guess the rock equivalent would be a cheesy bar cover band...if we were going to be a rock band, we wouldn't be that good, if we were going to be a jazz band, we wouldn't be that good..." That was sort of already in line with the punk rock mentality of "you don't need to be able to play your instrument as long as you can make noise with attitude" that I already sort of came from. But that's a lot harder to do with a lot of electronic music where skill actually matters (of course, you can fake it with loops and samples and repetitive beats, but I wouldn't really consider that to be good electronic music...). In the process, I discovered a few ways of creating sound/music that I thought were interesting and had fewer rules and expectations. One of the reasons I like Aphex Twin a lot (and glitch in general, but Richard D. James in particular) is because it seems to me like he's taking dance music and deconstructing it -- taking it apart and putting it back together in ways you don't expect. When you break all the rules, you have less to hold you back. :)

All I can say is that I'm glad things started getting better after the stuff described in this post. That said, Sweet Sixteen is still a really interesting program because it's so different from everything else. As I recall, I think it had a notation editor, too, so you could actually see (and write) your music as sheet music, which is something that dropped out of most other music apps. The fact that it separated patterns by number of bars, and could really simply do key changes and time signature changes actually seems, to me, to make it superior in some ways to some of the other stuff of its time. Really interesting how the technology seems to move more with what is popular at the time and what everyone else is doing rather than what's actually a better way of doing things or more innovative.