On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 04:59:03PM +0300, Diego Iastrubni wrote: > Nadav, > > I am one if the of the people who would like this mailing list a > hebrew/english mailing list. However, there are no alternatives for every > user yet, and by enforcing hebrew,you are enforcing some products. Which > means loosing of of the biggest things available as linux users: choice and > freedom. > > While I use KDE/KMail, which has a really good support for hebrew. There is no > good mail client for the GNome desktop. Mozilla's mail is not capable of > detecting the direction according to the content of the mail, so you only > have console based alternatives, which not everyone likes.
You forgot kmail. Not to mention mozilla, which is well enough. However I have not yet seen a way to archive a Hebrew mailing list properly. linux-heb does not yet have a searchable archive yet. I find this to be a major problem for that list. > > I am sure you made an Irix speak hebrew, but how hard is it? Can you expect > _every_ one doing this? Until hebrew solutions come out of the box, I don't > think that this mailing list will be able to speak about this. I remember that I had no *major* issues with adding basic Hebrew support to my sollaris environment. UTF-8 support was tougher, though. I don't remember if I got it to work. It's been long since I last tried... > > We had this discussion even in KDE-IL mailing list (which I started) and > finally we decided that just because _one_ user could not read, we did not > switch to hebrew discussions completely. > > BTW: next time, email's with spelling errors will not be answered, please use > kmail only ok? :-) Now what was the required mutt configuration? BTW: I write this message from a terminal in a windows 98 system. The Hebrew in the mail message does appear messed-up and unreadable :-( -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
