Alex Shnitman wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> So here it is. Modify the netscape= line to point to your Netscape
> binary and run. Then do what it tells you. What it does is hijack the
> Turkish enconding and turn it to Hebrew. As the echoed message at the
> end of the script says, it only works if you set your fonts for the
> Hebrew encoding (in Netscape Preferences) to the Fixed (Misc) fonts
> that come with the X server. If you have Eli's H.fonts package
> installed, fonts from there won't work -- if you select one of them,
> Netscape simply loads the standard "fixed" font instead. I don't know
> why it happens. The Fixed (Misc) font is good enough to read Hebrew
> sites though. Go to walla and see how it automatically switches to
> Hebrew for you. :-)
Alex,
Your hack works nicely. However, it's certainly possible to use other
fonts than "fixed".
If you install a TrueType font server, such as xfstt or xfsft, you can
use Hebrew TrueType fonts.
I use the fonts from... err... Windows, and they work fine with
Netscape.
Gavrie.
--
Gavrie Philipson
System Administrator
Netmor Applied Modeling Research Ltd.
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