On Fri, May 17, 2002, Moshe Zadka wrote about "Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?": > On Fri, 17 May 2002, Hetz Ben Hamo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So what are the reasons for not switching our official language here from > > English to Hebrew (not in a day, but rather in a month->2 months time > > period)? Please reply and explain your position... > > * mutt
Works well with Hebrew if you use an appropriate editor (such as vim) and a viewer (such as bidiv). Note that editing Hebrew with Vim is a bit different than using a bidi editor, since you have to manually switch direction yourself (usually with a single key) while editing. > * pms Yeah, like that's a very commonly used MUA ;) > * elm Same as mutt, as this can also use an external editor and viewer. Heck, with Pine there's the same problem/solution: the visual-order Hebrew pine should not be used because the standard it considers Hebrew never caught on. You should only write in logical-order Hebrew, iso-8859-8-i or utf8. > * nvi -- not supporting So use vim... > * nano -- not supporting > * joe -- not supporting > * jed -- not supporting) Do you really *have* to use those to edit Hebrew emails? > If you do use Hebrew, which encoding would you use? Win-1255? ISO-8859-8? > UTF-8? It doesn't matter, all utilities should be able to handle both standard encodings (Win-1255 isn't a standard; don't use it). > Now, let's go on. We're all UNIX users, we want to use grep, sed and > awk on our mailboxes. Make sure I can type Hebrew in bash too, in > all encodings expected. >... How about creating a Hebrew mailing list in addition to this one, and see how it picks up? -- Nadav Har'El | Friday, May 17 2002, 6 Sivan 5762 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |I put a dollar in one of those change http://nadav.harel.org.il |machines. Nothing changed. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
