On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 11:59 PM, Omer Zak <w...@zak.co.il> wrote: > What happens if you set the E-mail from Hamakor to regular (non-digest) > mode? >
Huh? The email is called "Announcements Digest, Vol 6, Issue 2". I just called it a digest, because that's what it is. I'm not reading it in digest mode, but in plain email mode. > I receive my E-mail from Hamakor this way, and so far had no problems > with encodings. > > >From inspection of the headers of an E-mail message which I received > from discussi...@hamakor.org.il: > > 1. It does not explicitly declare its encoding. > > 2. When my E-mail software is set to default encoding, it reads > correctly the E-mail. Likewise, when the encoding is forced to be > utf-8. When I forced it to use another encoding, the E-mail message > consisted of gibberish. > > Thus, Hamakor's E-mails are encoded in utf-8 but don't explicitly > declare this encoding. > > Therefore I suspect that Mordechai's E-mail by Web provider's default > encoding is different from utf-8, so any E-mail not explicitly declaring > itself to be encoded in utf-8 would be garbled en route. > > The web client I am using is Gmail, and Hamakor's emails (all of them) are the only ones that seem to have this problem. > --- Omer > > > On Sat, 2011-06-25 at 21:45 +0300, Mordecha Behar wrote: > > I just got another digest email from Hamakor, and once again it is > > full of question marks. > > This usually means that a different encoding is being used. > > However, my browser (and hence email client) is using Unicode (UTF 8). > > When I tried viewing in various encodings (Hebrew IBM 862, Hebrew > > Windows 1255, Hebrew ISO 8859-8 and 8859-8-1)I still just got question > > marks. > > So, what encoding is Hamakor using to send these emails? And why > > aren't they using anything standard? > > > -- > "Kosher" Cellphones (cellphones with blocked SMS, video and Internet) > are menace to the deaf. They must be outlawed! > (See also: > http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/2006/04/21/the-grave-danger-to-the-deaf-from-kosher-cellphones/and > http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/2007/02/04/rabbi-eliashiv-declared-war-on-the-deaf/ > ) > My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ > > My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. > They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which > I may be affiliated in any way. > WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >
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