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Re: linux-il Digest V2 #339



On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Lewinger wrote:

> Hi Tzafrir. I gather hebrew support is getting near a usable reality. Do
> you know of any mainstream office application supporting hebrew in linux
> ?

Not at the moment.

Once there is a gui toolkit that supports bidirectional hebrew (gtk2, qt3)
any programs that will use it will have resonable "built-in" hebrew
support. Translating the user interface will also be possible (it is also
possible today, but doing so with visual hebrew is problematic)

However, this basic level of supoprt will not be enough for a
word-processor and for some other similar programs. Some explicit hebrew
support may need to be added to them.

> > * unlike kde1, kde2 does not bring its own keyboard mapping. This is a
> > good thing. However, not all linux systems have the full setting for an
> > Israeli Xkb layout. This is another problem

OK. I took a short look at kxkb. No luck in persuading it to use Israeli
layout. Anybody has?

I couldn't find any config file with the layout names. But I saw a list of
layout hardwired at /usr/lib/kxkb.so . Anybody wants to send a patch to
kde to add "Israeli" there as well?

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


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