On 08/02/2008, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > handled? On my machine Hebrew is reversed in the console. If someone > > could enlighten me as to how to install new locales (I've googled and > > cannot figure it out) then I'll try it and report back. > > As root, "dpkg-reconfigure locales" gives me a curses based chooser. > Toggle on the ones you want, and it'll generate them.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales Generating locales... en_AU.UTF-8... done en_BW.UTF-8... done en_CA.UTF-8... done en_DK.UTF-8... done en_GB.UTF-8... done en_HK.UTF-8... done en_IE.UTF-8... done en_IN.UTF-8... done en_NZ.UTF-8... done en_PH.UTF-8... done en_SG.UTF-8... done en_US.UTF-8... done en_ZA.UTF-8... done en_ZW.UTF-8... done he_IL.UTF-8... up-to-date Generation complete. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ No choice. > Thanks for the interesting discussion. I'd not an inkling that > Cyrillic arrived that way, and the mechanics of ME languages were > pretty much dark here before this. :-) There is an excellent (but heated) discussion of Muslim faith and tolerance going on at /. right now. You might find it interesting: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/07/1651256 Grep my username "dotancohen" there. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?