Enough!
I use evolution, and I agree that its handling of ISO-8859-8-i is broken
(no way to add this encoding to the version which I have). The list of
supported encodings is even built into the binaries used by evolution,
so I cannot even add this encoding by using a configuration file. There
is no windows-1255 encoding either.
And I do not want to switch again E-mail client software. Is there a
version of evolution, which would allow me to send E-mail in one of the
logical Hebrew encodings?
Did anyone try to patch the relevant library used by evolution and which
provides the encodings?
--- Omer
On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 20:00 +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> 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.
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