Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote:
Hi Simon,
Thanks for your reply.
In fact most applications seem do just what you suggest, alias them. The
desing question in Java is whether to ignore the encodings entirely, or to
alias the encodings. And if to alias the encodings, whether to alias them
in low down - in the JRE, or higher up, in packages such as JavaMail. What
do you think?
There is a difference, IMHO, between JRE and JavaMail. While JRE is not
a MIME application, and therefor doesn't care about the extension,
JavaMail is. For JRE, there shouldn't be such a thing as a
"ISO-8859-8-i" encoding, and "ISO-8859-8" shouldn't mean "visual order".
On the other hand, JavaMail should allow users who get mail in visual
display order to properly display it.
Just my 2cents.
- yba
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