It require to limit yourself into certain email client it require learning about encoding, sometimes exporting the e-mail it require figuring what kind of bidi the specific client used don't forget gnome kde and mozilla and uses a diffrent kind of bidi alogarithim and more joining..
Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Fri, 17 May 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Fri, May 17, 2002, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote about "Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL >mailing lists?": > > FWIW, I immediately delete hebrew postings. If it's important enough > > to be said, it's important enough to be said in english. > > If he knew of thisthread, Eli'ezer Ben-Yehuda (are you a relative of his? :)) > would be turning in his grave :( > > I'm hope I'm not wasting my breath here, but all you need in order to read > Hebrew (besides *knowing* the language, of course, which indeed might be > a problem) is my bidiv program which can convert any iso8859-8-i, win1255 > or utf8 email into visual iso8859-8 which you could view with less, more, > nvi, cat, or whatever you're so inclined. Bidiv (unlike the "fribidi" binary) > is fully automatic, and tries to guess which Hebrew encoding it is seeing, > so someone who doesn't need to read other languages (say, russian encodings) > can even use "bidiv | less" as his default mail pager. That's what I do. > A non-released version of bidiv (tell me if you're interested) can also > automatically handle the case where your output should be utf8, not iso8858-8. > > So reading Hebrew email is easy. Writing is somewhat harder if you *insist* > on using an Editor with no Hebrew support, which is somewhat like insisting > that the C language sucks because "f77" doesn't compile it and f77 is the > compiler you know and prefer. If you want to write an Hebrew message, use > vim and not nvi (or write a patch to nvi yourself). How difficult is that? > Don't give me the "but I switched!"bull - they are not that different, and > it wouldn't kill you to use vim once in a blue moon when you want to write > Hebrew emails. > > I occasionally write and read Hebrew emails, and it's not hard. I still > prefer to read and write in English, though, so I'd personally prefer to > continue writing on the English list (but I don't mind reading both). > > As a sidenote, one of the best ways to get people to work on Hebrew support > is to "make" them need to use it, see how inconvenient it is and want to fix > it. This is how/why I worked on my version of the LaTeX 2.09 Hebrew support, > for example - the Technion forced me to write my MSc thesis in Hebrew (the > rules have since changed, and people can write in English now). > > Anyway, to make myself clear: I'll vote for an additional Hebrew list, > but for keeping also the existing English list. > > -- > Nadav Har'El | Friday, May 17 2002, 6 Sivan 5762 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- > Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |Committee: A group of people that keeps > http://nadav.harel.org.il |minutes and wastes hours. > > ================================================================= > 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] > > ================================================================= 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]
