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Re: Hebrew fonts AGAIN!!!



> they will call with DOS through communication programs like
> Telix,Terminate & etc.
> i cant ask them to call with special programs to see hebrew because than
> they'll go to others who does have hebrew.

If they must use DOS, *they* must have some sort of hebrew display working
already (hebrew.com, keybhe, or some other DOS mode thing), and know how
to use it.

> the system will need to transfer a mail in hebrew and will have IRC with
> hebrew when the connection is NOT ppp or slip.
For mail, you can use hebrew_pine.  I don't know that there's a hebrew
port of any IRC client out there, though.  Your main concern is not
reading (so long as they have the display working locally in DOS, and you
have an 8bit clean connection, you should be fine), but rather writing.
The hebrew_pine port takes care of this by having a "Hebrew compose"
option, where all the keys are trasnalted to their corresponding hebrew
letters.  DOS usually uses alt-tab to go to hebrew input mode, but that
would be specific to whatever comm program they use.

> I need to make my linux box read and write hebrew like dos.
> witch means the map of the memory should be like dos.
> the hebrew should place in the lower part of the memory like dos.

Not the newer versions of DOS (as far as I know, the hebrew characters go
in ascii slots 226-250 on all (semi-)modern versions of DOS.  And at any
rate, what *your* video card has in memory is irrelevant -- the only thing
that matters is what the clients have in their video cards.  Your big
concern is how to manage them *inputting* hebrew, and that would be
specific to the type of comm prog they use, and what they're used to using
in DOS.

> when my linux will be able to read and write dos hebrew they'll be able
> also to send and get messages in hebrew from their dos communication
> program at home.
Again, it has nothing to do with the Linux box being able to read and
write dos hebrew, only with the client's ability to display it.  For
example, I use a SunOS account here at UCLA, which doesn't know anything
about hebrew.  When I dial in from home (from a PC running Interactive
Unix, but the same appies to DOS), I load a hebrew font into the video
display memory, which substitutes ascii positions 226-250 with the hebrew
characters, and then I dial in.  If someone sends me hebrew mail, it shows
up as hebrew on my monitor, since the SunOS machine transmits the high
ASCII (which if you looked at it from the console of the SunOS machine
would look like garbage), and my video card automatically translates it
into hebrew.  If  I want to *send* hebrew mail, however, I need to use
hebrew_pine (a port of Pine 3.91, from HUJI), and use their hebrew mode,
or compose it under emacs, using hebrew.el.  Both these packages take care
to translate the letters I type in to hebrew.  So, for instance, if I'm in
hebrew mode in emacs, and I type 'a', the lisp package automatically
inputs a "shin", etc.

	--Ami Fischman <a540ami@pic.ucla.edu||http://pslc.ucla.edu/~a540ami>
		"...if he won't tell you something you want to know, cut off
one of his fingers.  The little one.  Then tell him his thumb's next.  After
that he'll tell you if he wears ladies' underwear.  I'm hungry.  Let's get a
taco."	-- Harvey Keitel, "Reservoir Dogs"


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