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Re: DEC Hebrew on Linux consoles
On Sat, 19 Dec 1998, Isaac Aaron wrote:
> Somewhere in the beginning of the application (I didn't make the application),
> it
> sends (probably) a request for the proper code page. This request didn't work
> well
> with my translation - on the other hand, it reverted the screen to using the
> original
> code page (removing my translation).
i'm not sure what you are refering to by "removing your translation".
_how_ did it remove your translation? how did you make the translation in
the first place?
> Some applications never use any escape code to switch to hebrew, instead they
> rely on the user to switch manually.
that means they never display any lower-case english letters, right?
and besides, how does th euser switch language? by pressing some key
combination, right? this key combination is interpreted by the software,
not by the terminal (at least as far as i know), so it means it is
actually supported by the application, or by the intermediate 'telnet' (or
whatever equivalent application you have in VMS). am i making a wrong
assumption?
> Switching the code page only changes the screen characrets. The keyboard has
> to be modified too: It has to send ASCII codes representing the hebrew code
> (E.G. send 97 when the user presses the T key - 'alef').
that sounds right as well. so, go for it, modify telnet...
> Do you know of any place where people did it?
no. but you might try asking the people from digital israel (errr, compaq
israel) if they know of such people. You might also try checking in the
israeli universities - maybe some of them were trying to run hebrew
applications on DEc machines with that old hebrew translation, from
non-hebrew vt200 terminals?
guy