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hebrew keymappings



I was looking at different hebrew key mappings I found on my machine.
I found two (besides the keymappings for kikbd, which works fine):

* /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/hebrew.kmap.gz (from console-tools
package)
* /usr/share/xmodmap/xmodmap.il (from the gnome-core package)

Both of them use strange keymapping: q->qoph, t->taw/tet, etc.
Both of them mention slackware as the origin for these key mappings.

Now I know how to modify those two key mappings, but the point is:
it seems such an easy thing to change - why was it not changed earlier?
Is there anyone/anything that uses those strange key mappings?

Or am I simply missing something? (I don't recall seeing the question
"I press aleph but get taw" or alike)

One other question:
The xmodmap file uses symbols "hebrew_[letter]", and the kmap uses
symbols "[letter]" (i.e. - "hebrew_aleph" in the xmodmap file and
"aleph" in the kmap). Where is any of those symbol sets defined?

thanks in advance

--
Tzafrir Cohen
mailto:see@t2.technion.ac.il




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