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Re: KDE 2 with Hebrew support



my posting is always mystrious here is a hacked spec made by Ilya and few
things added by me

Looking for suggestions

I bet nadav would give up a page on ivrix to put it right?

As for the LDP we first working on a dictionary for techincal words
and we need to decide if we going to translate initials or not
like if IP would be ai pi in hebrew or peh alef 
I think that if you translate part you need to translate all
other disagree with me..

send me your ideas

Ely Levy
System group
Hebrew University 
Jerusalem Israel



On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Nadav Har'El wrote:

|  On Mon, Sep 11, 2000, Ely Levy wrote about "Re: KDE 2 with Hebrew support":
|  > That makes it the time for other happy news
|  >
|  > The begining of working of hebrew implanted distrabution based on redhat 7.0
|  > and later a localized version of it.
|  >
|  > and the begining of the translation of the LDP and maybe even the GNU page
|  > to hebrew
|  >...
|  
|  Your posting is a bit mysterious :) What do you mean, is it time to work
|  on these things, or that *you* are actually working on this?
|  
|  I hope the latter (myself, I didn't even see Redhat 7.0 yet...).
|  What are your plans to include in the Hebrew distribution?
|  
|  --
|  Nadav Har'El                      |        Sunday, Sep 10 2000, 11 Elul 5760
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-- Attached file included as plaintext by Listar --
-- File: Hebrew_RedHat_specs.txt

Hacked up specs of the Hebrew RedHat:

- BitchX with Hebrew compiled in
- KDE 2, in the most sane version we can get at the moment
  where the Hebrew support works without any problems.
- gtkbidi
- Make menu entries for gedit, gnp load with gtkbidi
- Make GnomeICU load with gtkbidi
  (possibly, pack the new GnomeICU development version
  which fixes serious instabilities)

  Involves changing:
	  /etc/CORBA/servers/GnomeICU.gnorba
  and chaging there the "location_info" line to:
	  location_info gtkbidi gnomeicu
  
- Hebrew licq (haven't seen it)

- Good ISO08 console fonts which include line drawing characters:

  /usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts
  	iso08.f08.psf.gz
  	iso08.f14.psf.gz
  	iso08.f16.psf.gz

  I already have a 16 one, and will dump the 8 and 14 ones
  hopefully.

- Good working Hebrew console keymap.
  I think I have one which was quite fine for me for using
  Hebrew BitchX from plain console, switching via the 
  "Context-Menu" key on my Win95 keyboard.

- Hebrew X-compliant keymaps
  and Windows-style (Alt-Shift) switching (optional, along
  with original options)

  Files to be updated/added:
  /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/keymap/xfree86
  /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/he
  /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/group

  /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/pc104
  ^ that's not required, but we CAN update it
    so that the "Windows" keys would react as "Super-L"
    and "Super-R" keys (which are originally Sun keyboard
    keys AFAIK) instead of Meta-L and Meta-R.
    That's since Emacs would use Meta-L and Meta-R over
    Alt-L and Alt-R when available, and we don't wanna use
    Windows keys for Emacs opreations, but the usual
    ALT combinations.
  
  (Possibly, tweak the X configuration tools to present Hebrew
  and the additional group-switching Alt-Shift sequence)
  
- Decent free hebrew fonts.
  Find out legal issues and whether we can ship Microsoft's fonts.
  In case of doubt, contact Microsoft. It couldn't get any worser :)

- Check for hebrew editor

- Babylon and the dictionary files

- Lyx and its hebrew support

- Mozzila or patched netscape

- Hebrew Ispell

- Hebrew support for emacs

- Check the hebrew pine and maybe work for Unicode pine support

- Check for translating the HOWTOs to hebrew

- Localize version of main programs

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