=?iso-8859-8-i?Q? Handling non-UTF-8 Hebrew email
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/handling_non_utf_8_hebrew [blog.netbsd.org]
2018-06-11 12:12
In the dark ages before Unicode, Hebrew used its own encodings which allowed typing both Latin and Hebrew letters: Windows-1255, ISO-8859-8. I speculate that people initially expected input to be written in reverse order (aka “visual order“), assuming that everything will display text left to right.
source: L