On ב', 2005-11-21 at 22:02 +0000, Mikhael Goikhman wrote: > > > Can you show me a spec that says that "Content-Type: text/plain; > > > charset=iso-8859-8" in email messages should be handled as Visual Hebrew? > > > > http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1556.html > > > > In a closely-related field, ISO-8859-8 is considered "visual" for the > > purpose of HTML's mime encoding. > > This request for comments from 1993 discusses an unexisting nowadays > concept, "Hebrew in Visual mode", so it is really irrelevant in 2005.
Get a reality check: Internet Explorer treats ISO-8859-8 as Visual. Outlook (Express) treats ISO-8859-8 as Visual. Thunderbird treats ISO-8859-8 as Visual. > There is only one standard Hebrew specific charset, ISO-8859-8. You're leading an argument over semantics. RFC1556 extends the meaning of "charset" in MIME messages beyond the original meaning of "charset". What you just said is both correct and incorrect: correct for the casual sense of the word charset and incorrect for the MIME sense of the word. > "iconv --list" and "fribidi --help" list this correctly. Everywhere > you see text in ISO-8859-8 encoding, this _always_ means logical Hebrew, > in dozens of programs, including text editors. Those text editors might be talking about charsets in the non-MIME sense of the word. > I repeat, kmail is buggy. If it wants to show Hebrew incorrectly, from > left to right, it may do this as an option, but by default iso-8859-8 > should be considered logical Hebrew. In order to become incompatible with the rest of the MIME-speaking world? Yay. (Not like linux-il is the place for KDE bug reports, so I don't even know why we're discussing this here.) > > Windows clients would typically send you text encoded as "windows-1255" > > or UTF-8. > > How ironical. RFC 1555 (also from 1993) says "All Hebrew text when > transferred via e-mail must first be translated into ISO-8859-8". Ironic indeed. Guess we'll just keep compatible with the defacto MIME standard. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
