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.
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 12:53:50PM +0300, Nir Abulaffio wrote:
Shalom,
What encoding do these email use ? I had a hard time seeing anything,
much harder than usual.
I can usually see ISO-8859-8. is this the same as ISO-8859-8-I
Here is whst I got.
1. [Message: Re: =?ISO-8859-8-I?Q?=F8=F9=E9=EE=FA_=FA=F4=E5=F6=E4_=F2
=E1=E5=F8_=F4?==?ISO-8859-8-I?Q?=F8=E5=E9=F7=E8_=E7=F6=E5=F8?=] (3.6K
Does the problem appear also with the body of the text, or only
in the subject? Perhaps in particular screens? I seem to recall
problems with character translation in subject headers with some
older versions of pine, but I no longer have access to these
versions so I can't tell under what conditions this happens.
-Ron.
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