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Re: ircII and Hebrew



On Wed, 21 Aug 1996, Alex Shnitman wrote:

|>Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 09:29:56 +1030 (???)
|>From: Alex Shnitman <alexs@livelink.com>
|>To: Ira Abramov <ira@scso.com>
|>Cc: David Brauman <crisk@netvision.net.il>, linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il
|>Subject: Re: ircII and Hebrew
|>
|>On Wed, 21 Aug 1996, Ira Abramov wrote:
|>
|>> On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, David Brauman wrote:
|>> 
|>> > 
|>> > I can't be the only one who stumbled upon this problem.
|>> > ircII simply doesn't work that well with hebrew.
|>> > 
|>> > Even after "/set EIGHT_BIT_CHARACTERS ON" and "/set TRANSLATION LATIN_1"
|>> > it ofcourse types backwards and, you guessed it, displays other people's 
|>> > hebrew wrong (backwards. Windows stuff.)
|>> > 
|>> > Before I go on and write a script to fix this, or even modify the client,
|>> > is there any ready-made solution? 
|>> > 
|>> 
|>> Snunit solved it, I think purely through scripts. better ask
|>> elik@mail.snunit.k12.il, he may know more.
|>
|>But Snunit Hebrew _is_ reversed. Join #snunit and join #israel and you'll 
|>see Hebrew in two different directions.

yes - but it's solved on VMS irc client 
i am not sure about ircII
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