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  • From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
  • To: bill.rea AT canterbury.ac.nz
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Hebrew transliteration
  • Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 12:56:17 -0800

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
peter AT qaya.org (personal)
peterkirk AT qaya.org (work)
http://www.qaya.org/






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