On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Quoting Hetz Ben Hamo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>
> > 1. What is the official name of the "Logical" hebrew encoding? Windows 1255
> > or
> > ISO8859-8-i?
>
> ISO-8859-8-I. But a software package should be able to recognize WINDOWS-1255 as
> Hebrew as well for display purposes.
>
> > 2. The hebrew messages that I'm sending looks OK, but the subject line, if
> > it's in hebrew, skips the spaces, so if I send in hebrew "Hello All" - it
> > shows in hebrew "HelloAll" - anyone had this problem before?
>
> Subject lines are tricky. Basically, since the subject is part of the header, it
> should *not* contain any non-ASCII characters. Therefore, the proper way for a
> mail package to handle subjects is to encode them as base-64, with each span of
> base-64 surrounded by question marks, equal signs, and the languague code.
?charset?{B|Q}?ENCODED PART
(Should there be a question mark in the end?)
B: if base64 encoding is to be used, Q: if quoted-printable encoding is to
be used.
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Tzafrir Cohen
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