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Re:Re: Hebrew fonts AGAIN!!!



Ami Fischman wrote:

> Again, it has nothing to do with the Linux box being able to read and
> write dos hebrew, only with the client's ability to display it.  For
> example, I use a SunOS account here at UCLA, which doesn't know anything
> about hebrew.  When I dial in from home (from a PC running Interactive
> Unix, but the same appies to DOS), I load a hebrew font into the video
> display memory, which substitutes ascii positions 226-250 with the hebrew
> characters, and then I dial in.  If someone sends me hebrew mail, it shows
> up as hebrew on my monitor, since the SunOS machine transmits the high
> ASCII (which if you looked at it from the console of the SunOS machine
> would look like garbage), and my video card automatically translates it
> into hebrew.  If  I want to *send* hebrew mail, however, I need to use
> hebrew_pine (a port of Pine 3.91, from HUJI), and use their hebrew mode,
> or compose it under emacs, using hebrew.el.  Both these packages take care
> to translate the letters I type in to hebrew.  So, for instance, if I'm in
> hebrew mode in emacs, and I type 'a', the lisp package automatically
> inputs a "shin", etc.
> 
>         --Ami Fischman 

Hi,
i tryed to put the hebrew pine of huji on my linux.
i called from remote computer i tryed to write in hebrew and i COULDNT.
i putted the hebrew on my linux and i wrote herew but i couldnt 
understand it from dos cause its the wrong slots.

Moran.


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