On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 05:22:50PM +0000, Mikhael Goikhman wrote: > On 21 Nov 2005 19:08:24 +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > > While I disapprove of the tone, I should note that Evolution is the > > buggy one here, and kmail works according to specs. > > 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. I've already demonstrated that expecting a mail client to separate the two is an over-smart hueristic. > > Visual Hebrew is an anachronism, there is no place for it in 21 century. > All unix programs work with iso-8859-8 as the logical hebrew, and this is > the only correct thing to do. Apart from the said buggy client, the only client I am aware of that sends mail labeled as "ISO-8859-8" is the "hebrew pine" patch to pine. "Hebrew messages from which are indeed visual Hebrew. Windows clients would typically send you text encoded as "windows-1255" or UTF-8. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849755 | | friend --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
