On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Erez Boym wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using a Palm syncing it in to both my home Linux
> box and MS2K at work.
>
> As in most other applications Hebrew support as much
> as I know is simply not posible. I managed to see
> Hebrew fonts but it's always in the wrong direction or
> completely messed up.
If it is in the wrong direction, one thing you can try is biditext:
http://linux.org.il/pub/Hebrew/00INDEX.html#biditext
It is a hack, but on several cases it works surprisingly well.
But maybe the reason that some of the Hebrew loks like gibrish is because
it is encoded in some unicode encoding?
In this case chances are that whereever there was originally a Hebrew
letter, you will see one gibrish character (the same one) and then
probably one English letter.
>
> There is a way to see and write Hebrew in some
> applications like xTerma and xEmax but there are none
> for "office" users (Word Perfect, Koffice, Kpalm ...)
>
> It seams that in order for the world to stop consider
> Hebrew as a bug and start consider it as a language we
> need a strong "Hebrew Programmers Group" which will
> sign the right contract with these big players and
> start converting main stream office applications to
> Hebrew.
>
Following the example of MS-Office,IE,W2K the aim is to make general
software Hebrew-enabled (mainly: support unicode and bidirectionality).
There is some progress in that direction (next versions of QT and GTK will
have such support).
--
Tzafrir Cohen
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