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Re: Hebrew in console



On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Eran Levy wrote:

> Hi,
> I think that there is answer to this question around this mailing list but,
> I prefer ask it again. sorry.
> Anyone had any success typing hebrew in console? I have vim and Im running
> it with vim -H and I can type hebrew words but when I click on "H" Im
> getting "A" and when I click on "A" im getting "+" and things like
> that...seems my keyboard wasnt mapped or something...right? Please help me.

Sounds strange. Are you sure that this is not a fonts problem? (try saving
the file and viewing it under X, if possible). Although a fonts problem
seems even less likely.

You can have a console-level keyboard mapping. See the IGLU faq (that
section was slightly updated yesterday). http://linux.org.il/faq ->
hebrew -> console

Spesifically if your hebrew.kmap from the kbd/consoletools package is
incorrect (maps 'Q' to qof, etc.) then you can find the correct one (that
has already been submitted to the kbd package that can be found on any
kernel mirror) at:
http://www.iglu.org.il/pub/Hebrew/Keymaps/Console/il-8859_8.kmap.gz

On my system the hebrew console map resides at:
/usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/hebrew.kmap.gz

Also, a couple of days ago Behdad Esfahbod gave instructions for unicode
keyboard mapping of the console. From what I understand this doesn't work
with most apps (that expect iso8859-8 chars), right? Or maybe things are
different with glibc 2.2 and the right definitions?

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


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