On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 09:43:53PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > That could be a very nice startup, although an ulpan will probably be a > better bet ;-) > Anyway, there is the additional problem that there is always the > occasional server/router (didn't bother with trying to figure out) that > has the tendency to screw up the encoding and destroy the email. > Personally, unless its someone I know and is worth the while of working > a bit I usually just ignore the Hebrew mail. > I just get so little of it that I haven't had the time to bother.
I know postfix tends to do that. The reason is that some mailers write 8bit characters in their mail messages even though the messages are declared to be ascii or otherwise 7bit. Postfix follows here the principle of "process all input, produce correct output". Thus it converts those characters to question marks to defend mailers that can't handle 8 bit characters where they shouldn't be. One way to trigger such a behaviour from a number of mailers is to write an English message from pine of mutt. Such mailers will give the charset "ascii" to a message that contains no special characters. The recpient of the message will try to reply with the same charset. If the message contains Hebrew and the mailer is ignorant enough it will still give the charset "ascii" to that message even though that message certainly contains non-ascii chars. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[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]
