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Re: Hebrew E-mail



On Mon, 18 Sep 2000 solomon@barak-online.net wrote:

> Actually, I never saw the need for e-mail in Hebrew. But my daughter is out of
> the country and she sent me e-mail in Hebrew. I do have Hebrew fonts
> installed but didn't think I could see Hebrew e-mail. Much to my surprise, I
> was able to read it using the XFMail program by simply selecting Hebrew from the
> Language menu. 

This means you have the fonts setup correctly. But I believe that the text
still shows "reveresed", so reading it is a bit difficult. Right?

> 
> Now my question is how do I write a Hebrew message. Since I do have Hebrew
> support in the program, I assume there is a way.

> Message sent by XFMail on a LINUX Mandrake 7.0 machine

See http://www.iglu.org.il/faq/cache/56.html for instructions on how to
get hebrew chars to X apps from your keypresses.

But you willl still see what you write reversed.

See http://www.iglu.org.il/faq/cache/93.html for some pointers about
hebrew in mail. This about pine, and under construction, but may have some
useful information.

Generally you can write the messages in another editor and copy&paste the
text to your mailer's composer. 

One possible option is vim. Since you have Mandrake 7.0, the easiest for
you may be to upgrade to the vim packages from 7.1 (or above), which are
already complied with Hebrew support. Also see
http://www.iglu.org.il/faq/cache/101.html

HTH

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


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