Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 11/07/2005 19:56, Karl Randolph wrote:

> Peter:
>
> You admit that the problem with your reading of Hebrew in email messages is 
> your mail program.
>  

No, I have consistently said that the problem is with YOUR mail program, 
not with mine. Your program sends out Hebrew characters in an invalid 
encoding.

> The online email program that I am using may be changing the Hebrew to 
> character entities, but the interpretation of those character entities to 
> Hebrew letters when I read messages is happening in my browser. That your 
> mail program does not render html correctly, in this case character entities, 
> should not be blamed on any other source. Apparently that is common among 
> mail programs.
>  

Plain text is NOT HTML!!! Therefore YOUR mail reader which renders it as 
if it is HTML is WRONG, and mine and others which do not are CORRECT.

> Maybe we should inform ibiblio that their software has a bug that is 
> corrupting character entities into html text strings, a bug that effects not 
> only us, but others who deal with other languages. A patch shouldn’t be that 
> difficult. Who to contact?
>  

There is NO BUG in the ibiblio software, at least none that we have 
found. The only bug we have found is in YOUR mail program - in fact a 
matching pair of bugs.

I will not enter into any more correspondence on this, as I have wasted 
a lot of time trying to explain the situation and you seem to be 
refusing to understand the problem.

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



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