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Re: Reminder - send me Hebrew info.



On Sat, 10 Dec 1994, Harvey J. Stein wrote:

> 
> Just a reminder.To get this Hebrew Howto together, everyone please
> send me everything you know about using Hebrew under Unix in general &
> under Linux in particular.I'd think that the most useful thing would

Hebrew under Linux.

1. Hebrew on the console.

The "kbd 0.89" has Hebrew support, iso08.* fonts and Hebrew keys. Don't 
have much experience with it because normally I work under X windows.

2. X windows.

- Fonts.

There are some Hebrew fonts on "ftp.huji.ac.il" and 
"jerusalem1.datasrv.co.il" (I don't recall the exact location). Obviousely 
there are Hebrew fonts on "proprietary"(I mean not free) UNIX systems.

- Xmodmap.

I have created one for XFree86 2.1.1 (included at the end). Don't know 
about XFree86 3.1, I understand that there are changes in X11R6.

- xterm.

The "xterm-ansi" will display and even input Hebrew with the appropiate 
fonts and Xmodmap.

The "xhterm 1.4", see the ftp sites above, compiles, sort of, under linux 
with some changes (and using -g).

The main problem with "xterm" is that it supports only vt100 and you 
really need vt200 emulation.

3. Hebrew applications.

- Mail - pine 3.89_heb1.2, it includes the "pico" editor which supports 
Hebrew.

4. Miscellaneous.

- Translating to/from MS DOS(Hebrew starts at 128 as opposed to 224 on 
MS Windows/X windows). This is easily done with "tr".

- Printing. I have a DJ510 and I have modified the 'djscript' program to 
use Hebrew fonts. If there is interest for it I can provide the modified 
source.  

> be to have a Hebrew under Unix howto with an appendix on using Hebrew
> under Linux in particular (which would include urls for Hebrew enabled
> linux binaries, particular problems (& solutions) under Linux, etc.
> 
> Is anything already put together that we could add to?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dr. Harvey J. Stein
> Berger Financial Research
> hjstein@math.huji.ac.il
> 
> 

Hope it helps,

Vlad
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---- Hebrew .Xmodmap ---- cut here -------------------------------------------
!
! Hebrew key mapping for XFree86 (for US/Hebrew keyboards).
!
! This file can be fed to xmodmap to restore the default mapping.
!
! $XFree86: mit/server/ddx/x386/etc/xmodmap.std,v 1.2 1993/06/02 12:14:34 dawes Exp $
!
! First, clear the modifiers
!
clear    shift
clear    lock
clear    control
clear    mod1
!clear    mod2
clear    mod3
clear    mod4
clear    mod5
!
! Set the mapping for each key
!
keycode   8 =
keycode   9 = Escape
keycode  10 = 1 exclam
keycode  11 = 2 at
keycode  12 = 3 numbersign
keycode  13 = 4 dollar
keycode  14 = 5 percent
keycode  15 = 6 asciicircum
keycode  16 = 7 ampersand
keycode  17 = 8 asterisk
keycode  18 = 9 parenleft
keycode  19 = 0 parenright
keycode  20 = minus underscore
keycode  21 = equal plus
keycode  22 = Delete
keycode  23 = Tab
keycode  24 = q Q slash Q
keycode  25 = w W apostrophe W
keycode  26 = e E 0x00f7 E 
keycode  27 = r R 0x00f8 R 
keycode  28 = t T 0x00e0 T 
keycode  29 = y Y 0x00e8 Y 
keycode  30 = u U 0x00e5 U 
keycode  31 = i I 0x00ef I 
keycode  32 = o O 0x00ed O 
keycode  33 = p P 0x00f4 P 
keycode  34 = bracketleft braceleft
keycode  35 = bracketright braceright
keycode  36 = Return
keycode  37 = Control_L
keycode  38 = a A 0x00f9 A 
keycode  39 = s S 0x00e3 S 
keycode  40 = d D 0x00e2 D 
keycode  41 = f F 0x00eb F 
keycode  42 = g G 0x00f2 G 
keycode  43 = h H 0x00e9 H 
keycode  44 = j J 0x00e7 J 
keycode  45 = k K 0x00ec K 
keycode  46 = l L 0x00ea L 
keycode  47 = semicolon colon 0x00f3 colon 
keycode  48 = apostrophe quotedbl comma quotedbl
keycode  49 = grave asciitilde semicolon asciitilde
keycode  50 = Shift_L
keycode  51 = backslash bar
keycode  52 = z Z 0x00e6 Z 
keycode  53 = x X 0x00f1 X 
keycode  54 = c C 0x00e1 C 
keycode  55 = v V 0x00e4 V 
keycode  56 = b B 0x00f0 B 
keycode  57 = n N 0x00ee N 
keycode  58 = m M 0x00f6 M 
keycode  59 = comma less 0x00fa less 
keycode  60 = period greater 0x00f5 greater 
keycode  61 = slash question period question
keycode  62 = Shift_R
keycode  63 = KP_Multiply
keycode  64 = Alt_L Meta_L
keycode  65 = space
keycode  66 = Caps_Lock
keycode  67 = F1
keycode  68 = F2
keycode  69 = F3
keycode  70 = F4
keycode  71 = F5
keycode  72 = F6
keycode  73 = F7
keycode  74 = F8
keycode  75 = Escape
keycode  76 = F10
keycode  77 = Num_Lock
keycode  78 = Multi_key
keycode  79 = KP_7
keycode  80 = KP_8
keycode  81 = KP_9
keycode  82 = KP_Subtract
keycode  83 = KP_4
keycode  84 = KP_5
keycode  85 = KP_6
keycode  86 = KP_Add
keycode  87 = KP_1
keycode  88 = KP_2
keycode  89 = KP_3
keycode  90 = KP_0
keycode  91 = KP_Decimal
keycode  92 = X386Sys_Req
keycode  93 =
keycode  94 =
keycode  95 = F11
keycode  96 = F12
keycode  97 = Home
keycode  98 = Up
keycode  99 = Prior
keycode 100 = Left
keycode 101 = Begin
keycode 102 = Right
keycode 103 = End
keycode 104 = Down
keycode 105 = Next
keycode 106 = Insert
keycode 107 = Delete
keycode 108 = KP_Enter
keycode 109 = Control_R
keycode 110 = Pause
keycode 111 = Print
keycode 112 = KP_Divide
keycode 113 = Alt_R Meta_R
keycode 114 = Break
!
! Set the modifiers
!
add     shift   = Shift_L Shift_R
add     lock    = Caps_Lock
add     control = Control_L Control_R
add     mod1    = Alt_L Alt_R
!
! If you don't have ServerNumlock set in your Xconfig, uncomment the following
!
!add     mod2    = Num_Lock
!
! If you use any of the special default key mappings in Xconfig, they should be
! duplicated in this file.  Mappings should be added before the section above
! which sets the modifiers.
!
!  For the key specs:
!     LeftAlt     =>  keycode  64
!     RightAlt    =>  keycode 113
!     AltGr       =>  keycode 113
!     ScrollLock  =>  keycode  78
!     RightCtl    =>  keycode 109
!     
!  For the mappings:
!     Meta        =>  Alt_L Meta_L
!                     Alt_R Meta_R
!     Compose     =>  Multi_key
!     ModeShift   =>  Mode_switch
!     ModeLock    =>  Mode_switch X386Mode_Lock
!     ScrollLock  =>  Scroll_Lock
!     Control     =>  Control_R
!    
!  If you use ModeShift or ModeLock, the following modifier must be set:
!
!add     mod5    = Mode_switch
!
!  For example, to get the equivalent of:
!
!  ScrollLock  ModeLock
!  RightAlt    ModeShift
!  LeftAlt     Meta
!  RightCtl    Compose
!
!  use the following:
!
keycode  78 = Mode_switch X386Mode_Lock
keycode 113 = Mode_switch
keycode  64 = Alt_L Meta_L
keycode 109 = Multi_key
!
add    mod5   = Mode_switch Hebrew_switch


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