On 24 Nov 2005 20:38:46 +0200, Doron Shikmoni wrote:
>
> Visual directionality is alive and well, contrary to what has been
> asserted here. It is still being used extensively in HTML
> (unfortunately, I might add), and a bit less in mail.
Not quite. It is not used in mail, as well as for text files. Browsers
may decide to support this legacy, other software has no reason for it.
> A mail client that sends plain text with implicit ("logical")
> directionality and tags it with Charset=ISO-8859-8 is broken.
>
> A mail clients that renders plain text with Charset=ISO-8859-8
> as implicit ("logical") directionality is similarly broken.
This would be a good conclusion if you believe that RFC from 1993 is
relevant. However not all think so. I for one am strongly convinced these
RFC-s are a redundant mess today (in the context of email at least) and
should be ignored. Even your mailer agrees that requirements from 1993
are irrelevant and ignores large parts from RFC-1555 and RFC-1556.
Ask yourself several simple questions:
* Why to implement something not used by anyone (non-bidi visualization)?
* Why to keep the MIME vus non-MIME charset diversity for no reason?
* Why FOSS applications should copy meaningless behaviours instead of
setting their own de-facto behaviours that are consistent and sane.
No single mailer implements RFC-1555, noone implements RFC-1556 fully,
some mailers even ignore both. A logical conclusion: for the sake of a
better world, these RFC-s should be outdated and avoided as harmful.
Reqards,
Mikhael.
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