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[while reading this group once every X. month, here are two issues i'd
like to comment about:

A. domain hosting. where are you going to host the linux.org.il domain?
   on ira's soon to become system? i might be able to offer something if
   there's a need...

B. regarding hebrew fonts.

> I have translate tables for Unix-hebrew for both Terminate and Telemate 
> on my BBS, I think it is named simply hebrew.arj, you can just call in 
> the number in my sig that says "fax", and login. I use it all the time, 
> editing in Terminate and ANSI emulation in HebPine, and I also get the 
> low-caps. apparently, it is only necessary to translate the incoming 
> codes of 224-250, and the low 128 chars are never touched.

this is half a solution. there are two ways to solve this fully:
1. as ira said, making the cleint (dos) work in the iso-8859-8 character
set (hebrew aleph at 224, as opposed to hebrew aleph at 128 in dos, ALL
dos versions).
2. change ALL the unix programs to be able to make the translation of
hebrew codes from the 224+ range to the 128+ range, as configured per
user. 

first solution requires more work from the users (they'll need different
translation tables for different BBS systems).
second solution requires more work on the programmer's side.

(hint: we applied the second solution on our system, it calls for less
user support).

as for entering hebrew, to make things work for all types of system, make
the translation on the server-side software.

for email : hebrew pine does that allready (now v3.93), but it does NOT
add the translation tables for 224->128 ascii codes, you'll have to add
that.
for irc: i could supply you with a hebrew port of irc (v2.8.2), including
ready translation tables.
for other programs - you'l have to do that on your own.

guy


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