On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Ilya Konstantinov wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 01:56:56PM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> > For instance: how can I use kedit to write notes in Hebrew? Do I need to
> > supply some sort of UTF8 keymap? (not a good idea)
>
> setxkbmap -variant basic il
> (or it might be 'he' on your system)
il . It has been commited into XFree
>
> If you have XFree 4.0, you might want:
> setxkbmap -variant basic -option grp:alt_shift_toggle il
>
> (Or something similar. I just like the Windows combo for switching.)
>
> > I don't use kde much, so I'm personally don't bothered by this. But I keep
> > getting asked this question, and I would like to know what others have
> > come up with, before starting to dig kde archives.
>
> Then run the KDE application as:
> LC_CTYPE=iw_IL kedit
LC_CTYPE=he kedit
But better simply set in advance:
LANG=he
maybe laso set:
LC_MESSAGES=C
to avoid the hebrew user interface .
> which'll instruct xlib to decode keysyms to ISO-8859-8.
>
> Real Unicode apps on X (e.g. Mozilla, GTK 2.0 based software) usually
> decode the keysyms to the appropriate Unicode symbols themselves.
(BTW: there is a new snapshot of gtk 2.0 . looks nice)
I have no problem with the keyboard mapping.
The only problem is that the text shows up as question marks if I use an
iso8859-8 font. I tried using iso10646-1 fonts as well, and I only see
gibrish. And those fonts do contain hebrew glyphs. The only way I managed
to display this in Hebrew was to use "web fonts". But that's a bad
solution.
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Tzafrir Cohen
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