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Re: Hebrew problems



On Thu, 16 May 1996, Harvey J. Stein wrote:

> Gilad Ben Yossef writes:
>  > Only problem is that after something like 3 minutes, for random values of 
>  > 3, the entire keyboard mapping shifts to something unusable - all the 
>  > keys gets English characters, but the wrong ones. I cant even switch vt's 
>  > or do a ctrl+alt+del (i have to reset the box).
> Are you using the correct version of loadkeys for your kernel?  Why
> not avoid the problem entirely by doing Hebrew in X?
I'm using loadkeys 0.89 that came with my slackware 2.3, kernel is 1.2.13.
I *think* its the right one...
The reason I'm not using X is I only have 8 megs which causes heavy 
swaping under X.

>  > Any ideas? a faq i missed? a 15,500$ donation to pay someone to develop 
>  > *working* Hewbrew support? 
> 
> Sure.  I'll take it.
> 
>  > can set pine/pico to correctly use ispell? now when i press the keys i 
>  > get ispell --help or something like that, and no check is done?
> Maybe the wrong version of ispell.  There was a rogue version around
> for awhile which didn't interact with calling programs in the same way
> as the older (and newer versions) do.

Hm.. sounds like I've got this version all right. I'll look around for a 
newer one. thanks!

Any other ideas about the Hebrew thingie?

Gilad Ben-Yossef --------------------------------------------------
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