On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 01:34:35AM -0400, Vadim Vygonets wrote: > Quoth nadav mavor on Sat, Aug 30, 2003: > > áâãåì àðé ðéîðò îìøãú ìøîä äæàú àáì äôòí àðé > > àçøåâ îîðäâé > > Right... > > > à äúéòåï ëé éù ëàìä ùìà éëåìéí ìäú÷éï ì÷åç > > ãåàø ùúåîê áàéáøéú äåà îâåçê > > åçñø éñåã > > Except some of us use tty-based mailers (for various reasons), > and UNIX does not support Unicode natively yet. And support for > Hebrew in UNIX is much less advanced than support for Russian and > Japanese, for example.
Actually, if the system's iconv doen't work well you can install gnu's libiconv and have a decent charset and uniicode support. Pine indeed has quite a few issues with UTF-8, which was the main reason for me to stop using it. > > > àí éù ìîéùäåà áòéä áðåùà àðé çééá ìäñé÷ ùäåà > > ëðéøòä îîù ìà äôðéí àú øåç > > äLINUX ùäéà "àðé éëåì" å"äëåì àôùøé" > > Some people are not programmers. Some have better things to do. > "If you don't like it, fix it yourself or FOAD" is not a good > answer to complaints about Linux. > > > âí òì ä÷åã äæä áðåñó ìëåì äîúìåú ùìé åìùìá > > àåúå àðé çåùá ùäîòîõ öøéê > > ìáåà îäëäéìä > > In light of this, please explain why Emacs-bidi was developed in > Japan, and not (e.g.) Israel or an Arabic country that actually > *uses* right-to-left text. [ Just to remind to the gnus/vm users here: you might want to try it ] -- 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]
