Ron Artstein wrote:
I just performed a little experiment: I sent myself an email with
Hebrew characters, manually giving it an ISO-8859-8 header (from
pine). Mozilla Thunderbird (version 1.0, 20041206, on Linux)
displays it from right to left, that is in *logical* order.
Moreover, even if I manually select "Hebrew Visual (ISO-8859-8)"
from the view menu, Thunderbird *still* displays the message in
logical order.
Do you have the Bidi mail extension installed? This behaviour might be
caused by interaction between the Bidi extension and Thunderbird, or it
might just be a bug. I will look into it.
Thunderbird by default does not give the option of composing mail
in what it calls "Hebrew Visual (ISO-8859-8)" -- you have to
"customize" the encoding options in order to do so. I just did it,
and sent myself a message; it came out with the ISO-8859-8 header,
and the characters in *logical* order.
This is more or less by design. Thunderbird is supposed to support
visual Hebrew for incoming messages but to send messages only in logical
Hebrew, on the principle of "be strict with what you generate but
generous in what you accept". Ideally it should be impossible to send
messages with ISO-8859-8 in the header, even by customization.
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