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Re: Mandrake - Hebrew Support
On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Oren Held wrote:
> Hello !
>
> When I tested the Mandrake 7.1, I saw that I could choose 'Hebrew' as the
> default language. I expected to see any hebrew instructions/menus in
> hebrew, but there weren't.
>
> So what exactly is it doing ? Just installing the iso-8859-8 module into
> the kernel ?
>
Those menus were not localized not only because of lack of people
to do the translations, but (mainly) because Mandrake
(rightfully) refused to accept any Hebrew translations as long as they
use visual Hebrew.
But if you'll use any existing linux software that has Hebrew translation
(currently kde and lyx are the only programs I'm aware of) - you'll have a
hebrew user interface (the default language, "C", of KDE will be Hebrew).
That is because the installer configures the machine to set the
environment varibale LANG to "he", and thus your default locale is "he".
Some other by-products of setting the locale:
* the date format (try running "date" or look at the date in the KDE
desktop)
* Xlib allows proper hebrew input
That is set at /etc/sysconfig/i18n , and can be overridden by a user by
setting $HOME/.i18n with a similar format. See /etc/profile.d/lang.sh (or
lang.csh).
IIRC the choice also sets some defaults with the installer - default
keyboard layout (the keyboard layout selection sets both the console
keyboard layout and the xkb setting of XFree
BTW: that xkb Hebrew layout is not entirely correct. See the iglu
faq->hebrew->keyboard for more information.
As for the iso-8859-8 module - it is only used in file names, and even
there - I'm not exactly where. AFAIR it does not get loaded by default.
--
Tzafrir Cohen
mailto:tzafrir@technion.ac.il
http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
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