On 25 Nov 2005 11:41:46 +0200, Shai Berger wrote: > > On Friday, November 25 2005 02:36, Mikhael Goikhman wrote: > > > > Noone suggested to change the web rules, something that can't be easily > > deprecated. The situation with mail and iso-8859-8 is different however. > > So you just suggest to break the connection between mail and web. There is > no end to the breakage this can cause, mainly because most people are used > to assume that the encodings have the same meaning in both contexts.
The connection will be restored with a time, when the browsers decide, however their deprecation period need not be synced with the mailers. In fact, you voiced one of the main reasons for this discussion. I don't know what is the people expectation in the Windows world (it works with other encodings), but in the unix world the expectation is (except for a very small number of programs) that the text encoded as iso-8859-8 represents Logical Hebrew. The pointless charset diversion that was relevant many years ago, should not continue forever. Applications that absolutely want Visual, should implement iso-8859-8-e (that is a superset of Visual) as suggested in the same old RFC. Regards, Mikhael. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
