On Sun, 27 Nov 2005, Simon Montagu wrote: > Ron Artstein wrote: > > I just performed a little experiment: I sent myself an email > > with Hebrew characters, manually giving it an ISO-8859-8 header > > (from pine). Mozilla Thunderbird (version 1.0, 20041206, on > > Linux) displays it from right to left, that is in *logical* > > order. Moreover, even if I manually select "Hebrew Visual > > (ISO-8859-8)" from the view menu, Thunderbird *still* displays > > the message in logical order. > > Do you have the Bidi mail extension installed? This behaviour > might be caused by interaction between the Bidi extension and > Thunderbird, or it might just be a bug. I will look into it.
Same behavior on Thunderbird 1.0 (20041206, Linux) with Bidi extension and on Mozilla 1.6 (20040113, Windows) without Bidi extension: both display "Hebrew Visual (ISO-8859-8)" in logical order, whether detected automatically via the header or chosen manually by the user. > > Thunderbird by default does not give the option of composing > > mail in what it calls "Hebrew Visual (ISO-8859-8)" -- you have > > to "customize" the encoding options in order to do so. I just > > did it, and sent myself a message; it came out with the > > ISO-8859-8 header, and the characters in *logical* order. > > This is more or less by design. Thunderbird is supposed to > support visual Hebrew for incoming messages but to send messages > only in logical Hebrew, on the principle of "be strict with what > you generate but generous in what you accept". Ideally it should > be impossible to send messages with ISO-8859-8 in the header, > even by customization. Sending Hebrew only in logical order sounds very sensible. However, sending it with the ISO-8859-8 header isn't exactly being strict with what you generate :-) Cheers, -Ron. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
