From: Lior Kaplan (webmaster_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Tue 27 Jul 2004 - 17:11:01 IDT
windows-1255 or cp1255 is a superset of iso-8859-8-i (notice the i,
which means that's logical Hebrew and not visual).
Meaning that Microsoft has extra chars in that encoding, mainly nikud.
ik wrote:
> hi,
>
> Here is a thumb rull, for EVERY standart there is a Microsoft standart as well !
> Now in this case iso8859-8 is 100% (as far as i know) the same as cp1255 with one exception: The name :)
> and the code of charset type, ie when you need to state the name of the charset you will write cp1255 insted of iso8850-8.
>
> On Tuesday 27 July 2004 16:30, Micha Feigin wrote:
>
>>is it possible to make gnus treat windows-1255 chaset as iso-8859-8 by
>>default? I am getting some messages encoded in windows-1255 with the
>>charset="windows-1255" (assuming its set properly) and I see junk in
>>the test. When I tell gnus to handle the article as iso-8859-8
>>everything renders fine.
>>
>>I couldn't find how to tell gnus to use windows-1255, so I am assuming
>>that it just doesn't know it.
>>
>>Also, how do I tell gnus to show all articles using iso-8859-8 by
>>default if there is no charset stated in the article?
>>
>>I am using emacs bidi currently and gnus supplied by debian unstable.
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>
>
> Ido
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