Dear Markus,
Thank you very much for your extensive email. My comments below:
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Markus Kuhn wrote:
> ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/rfc/rfc1555.txt
>
> which simply suggests that Hebrew email shall use a MIME header
>
> Content-Type: Text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-8
>
> and shall contain Hebrew text in "visual directionality", i.e.
> left-to-right. RFC 1555 email can no doubt be displayed with cat and
> xterm directly without any bidi support required. It was my
> understanding that RFC1555 is de-facto what today everyone uses, but
> feel free to correct me.
Yes, it is, but the case is different with Arabic. ISO-8859-6 has been
always encoded logical and never visual. And also Unicode. There has been
never a 8859-6-i or 8859-6-e.
> Read the ECMA specs and let us know what you think about it.
I will read and comment ASAP.
But there's a pre-picture in my mind. The user should be able to cat, ls,
etc, and see a Unicode-conformant bidi output. If only that's possible
with the ECMA specs, we should consider further details. Do you agree?
--roozbeh
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