[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: hebrew chars on konsole/kde2



Hi

On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I have not yet managed to get konsole to display Hebrew (iso-8859-8)
> chars. When I set the font, through options->font->custom , to an
> iso8859-8 font, I see question marks instead o Hebrew chars.
> 
> Any way around this?
> 
> I figure that this is amore general problem of qt2 and different
> encodings. I still have not managed to get licq/qt-gui to use any encoding
> other than iso8859-1 or iso10646-1 . Haven't dug much there, though.

One way I can think of around the problem is "web fonts": supply iso8859-8
(hebrew) fonts that claim to be iso8859-1 (latin1). 
For such purpose you can use font like Snunit's Web-Hebrew. But this isn't
really necessary, as you can use any iso8859-8 font installed on your
system, by aliasing it.

For instance, I added the following to fonts.alias in on of the font dirs
on my system (mind the long lines):
-monotype-helvetica_web-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 -monotype-Arial-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-8
-monotype-helvetica_web-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 -monotype-Arial-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-8 
-monotype-helvetica_web-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 -monotype-Arial-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-8
-monotype-helvetica_web-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 -monotype-Arial-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-8
-monotype-times_web-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 "-monotype-Times New Roman-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-8"
-monotype-times_web-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 "-monotype-Times New Roman-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-8"
-monotype-times_web-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 "-monotype-Times New Roman-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-8"
-monotype-times_web-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 "-monotype-Times New Roman-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-8"
-monotype-courier_web-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1 "-monotype-Courier New-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-8"
-monotype-courier_web-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1 "-monotype-Courier New-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-8"
-monotype-courier_web-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1 "-monotype-Courier New-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-8"
-monotype-courier_web-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1 "-monotype-Courier New-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-8"

this gives me hevetica_web, times_web and courier_web with encoding of
iso8859-1, but actually with hebrew glyphs. S I managed to fool the
system.

This works fine with mandrake 7.0 and licq 0.70 . Haven't tried anything
else yet, however I see no reason why it won't work with konsole as well.

But I don't consider this a solution, because it requires fooling the
system.

Anything better?

-- 
Tzafrir Cohen
mailto:tzafrir@technion.ac.il
http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir




=================================================================
To unsubscribe, send mail to linux-il-request@linux.org.il with
the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command
echo unsubscribe | mail linux-il-request@linux.org.il