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Re: using hebrew



hebrew for linux: yes, easy to do.
you get the package called "kbd" from a good ftp site (i found it in finland's
 ftp.funet.fi). it gives keyboard translation for the virtual consoles.
this includes new fonts. those fonts include 2 hebrew fonts. one is a very
fancy font (looks like hand writing) that is completely unreadable (for me).
the other is a normal font, coming in 3 different sizes. instalation
instructions are included there.
a problem with this font : it causes the regular 'square' characters (vertical
and horizontal lines, corners etc) to look like the letter 'epsilon'.
another problem: hebrwe is installed as the user-defined translation
table (linux has 4 such tables in gneral). programs that activate
the termcap's "enable alternate set) (such as lynx 2.3) will cause
linux to switch into the default translaton table, i.e. - hebrew not active.

if you want hebrew for X, you simply install a hebrew font
in the /usr/X386/lib/x11/fonts/misc directory (just copy it there
and then run mkfontdir, in that directory), and then run xterm
with the -fn flag, to use the new font. i understand such fonts
are avilable at huji's ftp site. 

i didn't try to compile hebrew xterm on linux yet. do you know where i
could ft the sources from?

(ft -> ftp).

guy keren
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