Quoth Tzafrir Cohen on Tue, Jun 24, 2003:
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 11:25:51PM +0300, Zvi Har'El wrote:
> > set charset=utf-8
> > set send_charset=ascii:latin1:windows-1255:utf-8
> > charset-hook iso-8859-8-i hebrew
>
> Why add "latin1" in send_charset ? and before windows-1255?
>
> A typical Mixed Hebrew/English message is expected to use only ascii and
> Hebrew letters. I believe that the codepage values of all of those are
> also of valid ISO-8859-1 characters. Thus an autodetector will detect
> Hebrew messages as latin1 first, and you'll have to explicitly override
> those settings.
Not if you translate from Unicode (utf-8, in this case), which
was created to solve exactly these problems: Latin-1 characters
are at 0x80, Hebrew is at 0x590.
Vadik.
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