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Re: console chars



On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Diego G. Iastrubni wrote:

> hello list
>
> I once wrote a program for editing 8x8 and 8x16 fonts (in good old
> dos). I edited some hebrew fonts (hebrew starting at 226),

224, right?

> and run some bash script (a part of kdb program in mandrake)
> which generates psf files, for use with consolechars.
> On my dos proggy, I see that all hebrew chars start after 226, and when
> I use them on the linux console, I see that the hebrew chars are not
> contigiuos. The chars bellow 127 are OK
>
> Is there something I should know about hebrew on console? why is the
> hebrew so messed up? I noticed as well that some chars (127-154) are the
> same, and not the ones I wrote, and 155 is backspace(?).

I believe that this range is reserved to control chars in ISO-8859-8 , but
I'm not sure. The kbd package contains some "iso08" fonts, so you can
compare.

>
> I have attached a small 8x8 hebrew psf (2K). I hope someone could use
> it, it shows english and frames ok, so it ismore or less usable.

[Haven't tried it yet]

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


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