Hebrew encoding question

[Mordecha Behar]

On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 11:59 PM, Omer Zak <w1 at zak.co.il> wrote:

> What happens if you set the E-mail from Hamakor to regular (non-digest)
> mode?
>

Huh?
The email is called "Announcements Digest, Vol 6, Issue 2". I just called it
a digest, because that's what it is. I'm not reading it in digest mode, but
in plain email 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.
>
>
The web client I am using is Gmail, and Hamakor's emails (all of them) are
the only ones that seem to have this problem.



> --- 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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