On Fri, 17 May 2002, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > Hi, > > I think this issue have been debated before - but I also think it's a much > better time now to discuss it.. > > We're Israelies, most of us use Linux as their primary OS - and almost all of > the mailers supports hebrew - one way or the other.. > > * KMail in KDE 3.0 - supports hebrew right from the first character (thanks to > Lars, Ilya, Diego) > > * Evolution - if I understood correctly, you can read hebrew, but it's a bit > of hackish to write hebrew in it, until next month when GNOME 2.0 will be out > with full Hebrew support.
but evolution to use gnome 2.0 is stil a bit onger int the future, right? > > * Mozilla - Supports hebrew (Thanks to Mati and the other people in IBM Israel > for their work) One major problem with mozilla as a mail client for me (my mom uses it, BTW): you can't force the base directionality. reading Hebrew messages like that is kind of uncomfortable. > > * Pine - hpine exists for quite a long time and you can use it to read/write > hebrew.. pineheb (from which I'm writing this message) has an incorrect Hebrew support: it composes visual Hebrew. There is a logicvsl Hebrew pine patch circulating for a while, but I haven't yet had the time to examine it) Anyway, there are generally some ways to resonably work with pine with logical Hebrew. I personally still have problems with UTF-8 messages. Can anybody please give me instructions how to read UTF-8 messages on a solaris system? my current bidiv copy does not seem up to the task. > > So what are the reasons fornot switching our official language here from > English to Hebrew (not in a day, but rather in a month->2 months time > period)? Please reply and explain your position... A number of things: 1. less contributions to the general (english) body of knowledge. e.g: try STWFing for some Hebrew phrase. 2. there are some technical difficulties. Don't underestimate them. 3. I suggest to start with the gnubies list, and see how it goes there. Alternatively, maybe setup a seperate list (r sublist? des listar support this notion?) 4. I hope that the archive will supprt on-the-fly conversin of the messages to UTF-8. When I search the messages archive I don't want to care what was theoriginal charset. -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= 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]
