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Yair Friedman <yfriedma@JohnBryce.Co.Il> writes:

> > [5  <text/plain; iso-8859-8 (8bit)>]
> > Hebrew			ωμεν
> > Italiano		Ciao, Buon giorno
> 
> I'm not sure it's wise to display the Italian greetings in Hebrew
> charset, most of the readers probably doesn't have it installed, so they
> won't see it.

But the Italian greeting was in all ASCII, so...

When encoding a message (or a message part), then one chooses a
charset that can encode that message (or part).  If one were to only
use the charset for the non-ASCII words, then one would have to send
gazillion-part messages, which is not what one would want.  One wants
as few parts as possible.

> iso-8859-8 is not a "valid" character set.  The message seems to be
> using iso-8859-8-i (According to RFC 1556), but the whole point of
> sending r2l language messages in (X)Emacs is mute.


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Well -- isn't it nice to be able to say ωμεν?  :-)

(Although I don't know whether that is readable.  What does one do --
read the English text l2r and then the Hebrew world r2l?)

But since there is no proper r2l support in the Emacsen, the Arab
languages and Hebrew (for instance) thingies are more toys than really
usable, I guess.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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