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Re: Mandrake - Hebrew Support



Right now i am translating Downloader for X to hebrew..
after i'll finish it, i will start translate something else
so if u are complaining for the lack of hebrew apps, just do the dirty work by
yourself.. don't wait someone to do it for u.. coz nobody will
Pavel Bibergal

Tzafrir Cohen wrote:

> 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 simil

> ar 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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