On Sat, Aug 21, 2004, Shachar Shemesh wrote about "Re: charset iso-8859-8-i": > Both the last sentences are not exactly accurate.
Care to back up this claim with a reference? > When logical Hebrew became popular, people wanted to use ISO-8859-8 for > logical Hebrew pages. The ugly hack was to define a new encoding called > "ISO-8859-8-I". It is not defined in any standard I'm aware of, and it's This is what I also said. The "-i" kludge is unfortunate, and is ugly, and I wish it never existed. But it does, and saying it doesn't exist isn't very helpful. > As far as I know, ISO-8859-8-I does not exist outside the HTML/Mime > world, and ISO-8859-8 does mean logical Hebrew there. Iso-8859-8-i was defined as early as 1993 in RFC 1556. Check out http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1556.html. This RFC says exactly what I said. I don't know what the ISO standard itself says. Nobody knows what ISO standards say, because these <insert derogetory term> don't publish their standards on the Internet. I already mentioned that while this RFC is "de jure" law, the "de facto" law is that the old visual representation is all but obsolete, so people are thinking more and more that it's silly to tack on the extra "-i" for the only useful encoding. So they don't. Eventually, the standard will probably change. But it hasn't. -- Nadav Har'El | Saturday, Aug 21 2004, 4 Elul 5764 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |"Outlook not so good." Wow! That magic 8- http://nadav.harel.org.il |ball knows everything! So, what about IE? ================================================================= 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]
