Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 19/01/2004 12:30, Bill Rea wrote:

> Peter Kirk wrote:-
>
>  
>
> > > ... (Note, for instance, that all the major ancient language
> > > e-lists still ask for transliteration.) ...
> > >
> > >      
> > This is not so much because of technical limitations, more because not
> > all list users are prepared to upgrade their software (even when
> > upgrades are free) to support Unicode.
> >    
>
> I wish you wouldn't insult people so gratuitously. Some people are not in
> a position to upgrade to the latest whiz-bang software for reasons other
> than their personal crankiness. In fact, some people have occasionally
> been forced to down grade to text-only mailers so that they other people
> can reply to their emails. Spammers have forced a lot changes on email
> administrators that in an ideal world they wouldn't have made. That
> impacts on the end users.
>
>
>  
Please don't confuse the issue. I said nothing about anything other than 
plain text. Unicode Hebrew is plain text. The message I sent with Hebrew 
text in it was

> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Could you read it - the main part, or the Hebrew? There is no spam 
danger in Unicode plain text. But, though you may not realise it in 
beautiful but far-away Christchurch (I was there last January), the 
world is multilingual and we simply can't all communicate with ISO-8859-1.

But thanks for the reminder that not everyone is able to choose their 
own mailer. Some are constrained to old solutions by their (Unix or 
other) Systems Administrator.

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Peter Kirk
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