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Re: linux-il Digest V2 #339



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

Israeli Linux mailing list wrote:
> 
> linux-il Digest Wed, 06 Dec 2000        Volume: 02  Issue: 339
> 
> In This Issue:
>                 Re: iso8859-8 on kde2
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 00:33:34 +0200 (IST)
> From: Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@technion.ac.il>
> Subject: Re: iso8859-8 on kde2
> 
> Hi
> 
> On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Oren Held wrote:
> 
> > > The only problem is that the text shows up as question marks if I use an
> > > iso8859-8 font. I tried using iso10646-1 fonts as well, and I only see
> > > gibrish. And those fonts do contain hebrew glyphs. The only way I managed
> > > to display this in Hebrew was to use "web fonts". But that's a bad
> > > solution.
> > I noticed that too. too bad. That's a step back, in kde1, kwrite/edit were
> > much better supported..
> > The weird thing is that kwrite doesn't even allow me to change the font.
> 
> kwrite dosn't have one font. see "settings->configure hilighting".
> 
> There is also the generic qt --font option, which I have not yet figured
> how to use.
> 
> BTW: I still have not managed to display kde's hebrew help messages (the
> ones you get with --help). Not even in konsole, when I set
> options->font->unicode to "on", I still see all the hebrew chars as
> question marks.
> (to display the hebrew messages one has to install the I18nn-Hebrew
> package, and set LANG to "he".
> 
> if you have LANG="he" and want to get a usage message of some kde
> application, kfoo, use:
> 
> LC_MESSAGES kfoo --help
> 
> or:
> 
> LC_ALL=C kfoo --help
> 
> (the former is preffered)
> 
> instead of 'kfoo --help'
> 
> Are those problem known? Solved in 2.01?
> 
> I personally don't bother filing bug reports etc. because I don't actually
> use KDE much. Maybe it is a local problem with my machine. I have no
> confirmation either way...
> 
> Some general notes about hebrew support in KDE:
> 
> * This is the first package with a relatively complete hebrew
> localization (Even though it uses visual hebrew).
> Users: please review the translations and report about things you think
> are incorrect (I believe reports should go to Meni Livne <meni@mail.com>,
> or to the ivrix list, where terminology is one of the topics...)
> 
> * To use the localization one has to install iso10646-1 fonts.
> Using unicode (iso10646-1) for the translation is generally a good idea,
> because it means that the user will be able to mix languages more easily.
> 
> But... There are a few bitmap freely distributable iso10646-1 fonts
> that also include hebrew glyphs, and not even one scalable.
> (One can download those fonts from the internet, or rip them off a near-by
> windows system, though)
> This means distributions can't carry those fonts and configure the distro
> to use them. The users will have to install the fonts and configure.
> 
> * 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
> 
> * There is currently a problem of kde programs to use iso8859-8 fonts
> (correct me if I'm wrong)
> 
> --
> Tzafrir Cohen
> mailto:tzafrir@technion.ac.il
> http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
> 
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