Re: [Bug 25136] You have dropped support for encoding cp862!! from Leif Halvard Silli on 2014-03-27 (www-international@w3.org from January to March 2014)

From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 16:38:37 +0100
To: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
Cc: bugzilla@jessica.w3.org, www-international@w3.org
Message-ID: <20140327163837399854.6d232c09@xn--mlform-iua.no>

John Cowan, Thu, 27 Mar 2014 09:33:48 -0400:
> bugzilla@jessica.w3.org scripsit:
> 
>> Then you follow the advice that Martin Dürst gave in comment #19: 
>> instead of
>> converting to numerical character references, you must convert directly to
>> ISO-8859-8. Then, in Firefox, the user just need to select "Hebrew 
>> (Visual)"
>> from the Character Encoding menu.
> 
> This may involve loss of data, as ISO-8859-8 is not a superset.

I believe ISO-8859-8 has all the Hebrew letters that CP862 has. And I 
further assumed that the trouble we are discussing is only related to 
Hebrew letters. But yeah, you are right.
-- 
leif halvard silli

Received on Thursday, 27 March 2014 15:39:08 UTC