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Hello!
Please add the following information to your Hebrew Howto.
I was going to send this message to the mailing list of Linux, but I hesitated
(because it is commercial). Anyway, it is so important, so I think it must
be included in your Howto, and probably in the mailing list. Please advise
me (by response) whether I should send it to the mailing-list.
Thanks in advance,
Eli Marmor (complete details are included in the original message).
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> 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
> 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?
> etc.......
I am Eli Marmor of El-Mar Software Ltd. (I guess most of the readers already
heard and know my name). I don't know if your request refers to commercial
products too, but I think that the following information is so important,
so I send it (excuse me for my English. I'm in the business of Hebrew...):
The Hebrew Support for X-Windows & Motif, is a product of El-Mar Software,
which adds Hebrew functionality to many of the parts and layers of X-Windows
and Motif, including Xlib, all of the widgets of Motif, hterm (Hebrew xterm),
demos and simple useful applications (e.g. bi-lingual Motif-based editor),
fonts (including scalable Type1), keyboard-manager in order to allow
Hebrew and push-mode for non-Motif applications, etc.
Despite allowing many new features and variations for Motif widgets,
the support doesn't have any modification to internal data-structures
of Motif, so existing applications which were compiled and linked under
non-Hebrew environment and libraries, can be relinked (without compilation!)
and run with Hebrew (you can replace shared-libraries, so even the relink is
not needed!)
By using another tool of us, Motif/Xplorer, you can take commercial
applications (without their source) and translate them to Hebrew. This was
the way of giving Hebrew support for Oracle Forms 4, Intellicorp's Kappa
and OMW, CA-Unicenter, and many other leading UNIX tools sold in Israel.
This product was purchased and adopted by most of the workstation vendors
(9 of them, including the biggest: Sun, HP, SGI), and many other software
houses. There are Makefiles for more than 30 platforms and operating systems.
We believe only in open software, so all the customers get the compelete
source code. We have good relations with the leading forces in this industry,
including the technical staff of X-Consortium and the technical staff of COSE.
Eli Marmor
El-Mar Software Ltd.
marmor@sunshine.cs.biu.ac.il
Voice: 050-237338
FAX: 09-984279
P.S.: The announcement of the Arabic Support for X-Windows & Motif, is expected
in January. English, Hebrew, and Arabic will be handled by 8 bits (!),
including the full set of Arabic glyphes.
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