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Re: Hebrew Support in KDE 2.2
- To: "Diego G. Iastrubni" <iastrubn(at-nospam)actcom.co.il>
- Subject: Re: Hebrew Support in KDE 2.2
- From: Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir(at-nospam)technion.ac.il>
- Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 21:31:09 +0300 (IDT)
- Cc: Ilya Konstantinov <linux-il(at-nospam)future.galanet.net>, Shlomi Fish <shlomif(at-nospam)techst02.technion.ac.il>, <linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il>
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On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Diego G. Iastrubni wrote:
>
> > > Does anybody know how good is the Hebrew support in KDE 2.2?
> it' goes like this:
>
> lets say in the control centre, you set the default encoding to iso8859-8, in
> kate (the new editor) you can see hebrew text, and edit, and local files and
> directories with hebrew naems are displayes OK (yes like in windows), but
> when you try to load any other program like konsole it will crash. it short
> it does not work.
I remember seeing a couple of reports in this list of crashes when the
'iso-8859-8' codepage is used. The hebrew localization to KDE uses the
ISO-10646-1 (unicode) codepge. I believe that with QT 2.3 you no longer
need to set your codepage to ISO-8859-8 to be able to use the ISO-8859-8
codepage in QT programs.
But this also means that hacks like the 8bit keyboard layout won't work.
Anyway, if you have a fairly recent version of X, then you can simply use
the 'Israelian' ('il') keyboard layout that comes with it (use the 'il'
keyboard with any Xkb front-end).
>
> another think, there is a keyboard layot which supports hebrew, tested
> breafly byme and it works. But I needed to disable it, since kkbx (or
> something) crashed on startup. But we are comming closer to a full port of
> windows on *nix. Wine is far behiond KDE.
Here's another report. Any idea what the spesific problem is?
>
> On konky I see walla/iol forums is corrupted, still on IE there is a RTL/LTR
> document, I miss it here.
1. Their pages don't define a proper charset definition. Try forcing
ISO-8859-8 codepage.
2. Their fors have 'dir=rtl' for various form elements. Using the 'dir'
attribture in a visual hebrew page is somewhat confusing, and has confused
mozilla in the past.
--
Tzafrir Cohen
mailto:tzafrir@technion.ac.il
http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
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