On 17 May 2002, Erez Doron wrote:

> well, the issue is not if i can apply the turkish patch or not, etc ...
>
> for example: i have linux installed on my ipaq. i can not use kde nor
> mozilla on my ipaq ( not enough mem, not enough flash, screen too small)
> and the only mail client i have support only ... surprise: english
>
> and there are more examples: email on some cellphones is: english only,
> etc ...
>
> i belive that the mailing list is o.k. using english
>
> 1. all mail client support it

Not all of the people who use the clients support reading English and
writing (good) English.

> 2. a lot of terms are in english

You can still use English terms. Both ISO-8859-8-i and UTF-8 are supersets
of ASCII.

> 3. it makes my english better :-)
> 4. cut and paste from cmdline/howto

See (2) and (1).

Again, what about people who find it difficult to read long English texts?

What about Hebrew texts (not many, but still..)

> 5. it works, why change

That is: try in a seperate mailing list first

>
> btw: now i am composing the mail with evolution which supports only
> visual hebrew

You can use gvim as an editor for evolution (see http://vim.sf.net) ;-)

-- 
Tzafrir Cohen
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