Re: hebrew charset encoding iso-8859-8-i

[coypu%sdf.org@localhost]

On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 09:56:52PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 05:54:57PM +0000, coypu%sdf.org@localhost wrote:
> > I like to read my email. I don't like needing to use python scripts to
> > parse it. So this diff worked for me.
> 
> Are you really sure that they are the same thing?

Code point wise, yes. The distinction is between direction.
ISO-8859-8 is old, and assumes that there is no bidi support, and
will be legible if displayed left-to-right.
ISO-8859-8-i is "implicit order", i.e. Hebrew needs to be written right
to left.
ISO-8859-8-e is "explicit order", so code to denote direction must be
used.

https://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/dirlang.html#bidi88598
https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1555.txt
https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1556.txt