Peter:
Thanks for the reference. I haven’t finished reading it yet. From what I read
in the first pages, it appears that MIME standard is limited to US-ASCII
only, no Hebrew possible.
This set ofI think you need to read more carefully, although of course such standards are difficult for non-specialists to understand.
documents, collectively called the Multipurpose Internet Mail
Extensions, or MIME, redefines the format of messages to allow for
(1) textual message bodies in character sets other than
US-ASCII,
(2)...
I want to comment on the ibiblio archiving software: if a message is sent
throughout the system, should it not be stored in the archives unchanged? If
it changes the messaages, is it not a bug? Or is it in Redmondese “a feature”
that the messages are not stored unchanged? Even messages sent from your mail
program are changed by the ibiblio archiving program, is that what you
wanted? Is that what you expected and planned for? Do you see why I call it a
bug?
In particular, I noticed that character entities are not stored as character
entities, they have been changed to and stored as html text strings. And
Hebrew letters that you *think* are being sent as windows-1255 characters,
are being changed to and stored as character entities. These are the changes
I have been able to document from messages sent from your mail program, not
the one I use. I think that is a bug. What other ways is the software
changing messages?
What I expect now is that if I go back in the archives to one of yourCan you show me an example of this, with one of my messages? Try with this one, into which I will now insert some Hebrew in UTF-8 encoding:
messages with some Hebrew in it, and quote it, that the Hebrew will come out
as unintelligeable html text strings. Is that not a bug?
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