On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, ynon perek wrote:
> Hi List
> I am trying to use Kde 2 web browser, and got some hebrew problems with it.
> The first thig is, that whenever I try to write hebrew characters, I get
> question marks instead of the letters.
>
KDE2 (actually QT2) will only use iso8859-8 fonts properly when the locale
is set to hebrew. Thus addin gfurther to the limitations of the X input
methods. I believe that the general idea is to encourge people to use
unicode. But I also believe that QT3 will behave better here. Hetz?
Also, up to (no including) version 2.3, qt thought that the languages "he"
and "he_IL" are not hebrew.
It still doesn't use the mechanism of locale aliases, like libc.
> Another problem, is when I try to add a TrueType font from windows (such as
> David or Arial) I get empty squares instead of characters, when using this
> font.
Both David and Arial?
Generally Arial is encoded much better (David's encoding is non-standard).
Other unicode fonts, like Arial: Times New Roman, Coureir New, Tahoma, and
Lucida Sans. I believe all of them should include hebrew glyphs on most
windows versions.
>
> I am using XFree , with the 8 bit keymap from the Iglu site, and the fonts I
> was able to run were the fonts from Elmar package (menu, bible etc.)and the
> Web-Hebrew Ad font, which I have been using to view web pages in netscape.
Those are all "web fonts" (fonts that include an iso8859-1 encoding that
is actually an iso8859-8 encoding). This is the ugly way to bypass that
settings problem with qt.
BTW: with a little bit of fonts aliasing magic, any font could be used
that way. But the general uglyness of this method does not encourge me to
support such scripts that will perform this magic...
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Tzafrir Cohen
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