On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 07:52:12PM +0300, Ron Artstein wrote: > On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > >What mail client do you use? Is it pine 4.44 on Aix 4? Any more > >up-to-date mail client availble? (e.g: pine 4.5x, mutt 1.4/1.5) > > > >ISO-8859-8-i has the sam characters as ISO-8859-8, but implies > >logical ordering of characters. ISO-8859-8 in mail-web implies > >visual ordering, which is generally a bad idea. > > My experience is that bidi-aware mail clients treat iso-8859-8 > and iso-8859-8-i as equivalent and display both using logical > order. This is unlike the behavior of web browsers and might go > against the standards, but is probably sensible given that most > of the mail out there which identifies itself as iso-8859-8 is > in fact in logical order. > > Of course this is irrelevant to pine, which not only is not > bidi-aware but not even charset-aware: as far as I understand, > the only thing pine does with the charset header on an incoming > message is compare it to its own definition, and issue a warning > if they're different. Otherwise character handling is left to > the terminal.
Pine has some charset-awareness. E.g: you can set some charset-dependent filters and settings. This should have be improved in pine 4.5x . Pine 4.4x was still very problematic with regards to multi-byte (e.g: UTF-8) support, though. It's been long since I've used pine, though. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849755 | | friend -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
