Hebrew encoding question

[Omer Zak]

What happens if you set the E-mail from Hamakor to regular (non-digest)
mode?
I receive my E-mail from Hamakor this way, and so far had no problems
with encodings.

>From inspection of the headers of an E-mail message which I received
from discussions at hamakor.org.il:

1. It does not explicitly declare its encoding.

2. When my E-mail software is set to default encoding, it reads
correctly the E-mail.  Likewise, when the encoding is forced to be
utf-8.  When I forced it to use another encoding, the E-mail message
consisted of gibberish.

Thus, Hamakor's E-mails are encoded in utf-8 but don't explicitly
declare this encoding.

Therefore I suspect that Mordechai's E-mail by Web provider's default
encoding is different from utf-8, so any E-mail not explicitly declaring
itself to be encoded in utf-8 would be garbled en route.

--- Omer


On Sat, 2011-06-25 at 21:45 +0300, Mordecha Behar wrote:
> I just got another digest email from Hamakor, and once again it is
> full of question marks.
> This usually means that a different encoding is being used.
> However, my browser (and hence email client) is using Unicode (UTF 8).
> When I tried viewing in various encodings (Hebrew IBM 862, Hebrew
> Windows 1255, Hebrew ISO 8859-8 and 8859-8-1)I still just got question
> marks.
> So, what encoding is Hamakor using to send these emails? And why
> aren't they using anything standard?


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