On Wed, 2 May 2001, Ilya Konstantinov wrote:

> On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 10:14:59PM +0300, Ariel Biener wrote:
> > On Wed, 2 May 2001, Ilya Konstantinov wrote:
> > 
> > > Certainlynot. What 'General' font you have selected? Sure it has
> > > Hebrew glyphs?
> > 
> > But what has the General font have to do with anything ?  I am running
> > xterm -fn heb8x13. That is a hebrew font, and I want to be able to type
> > hebrew in the xterm.
> 
> Weren't you speaking of KDE? Or am I stupid?
> 
> Anyhow, you can use xterm in UTF-8 mode via:
> xterm -fn  -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-c-*-iso10646-1 -u8
> 
> I don't think you can run it in 8-bit Hebrew mode, but you can
> use an editor which works well with UTF-8 terminals (e.g. development
> vim) and then iconv -f utf-8 -t iso-8859-8 your text. No better
> solution, sorry (except for getting a temporary 8bit keymap).

Alternatively, try:

http://www.iglu.org.il/faq/cache/141.html

My current 'biditerm' script is:

#!/bin/sh

LANG=he_IL exec xterm -u8 -lc -bi -fn \
    -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-80-iso10646-1 \
    "$@"


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