Hi all Shachar: I hope you don't mind me forwarding this message (slightly edited). It is simply a rather common problem, I believe. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 15:21:00 +0300 From: Shachar Shemesh To: Tzafrir Cohen Subject: Re: mozilla's mailier Tzafrir Cohen wrote: >Hi > >On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > >>Tzafrir Cohen wrote: >> >>>On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: >>> >>>>On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Shachar Shemesh wrote: >>>> >>>>>Tzafrir Cohen wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>Hi >>>>>> >>>>>>I noticed that you use mozilla 0.9.1 as a mailer, and wanted to check it. >>>>>> >>>>>>האם המשפט הזה מופיע כעברית לא "הפוכה"? >>>>>> >>>>>>Can you read the above Hebrew line? >>>>>> >>>>>>Thanks >>>>>> >>>>>Writing you this mail in "Mozilla" now. >>>>>I can read your sentance almost fine (there is a double quotes on the >>>>>right, no space, of the word "haphucha", and the question mark is on the >>>>>right). >>>>> >>>>>I am talking about RedHat 6.2, almost unpatched. >>>>> >>>>>I have not been succesful in writing Hebrew, though. >>>>>a"a`i' a"i^u`o^e` a"?a" i^a*o^e'o` i`e^ a'o`a'?e'u'? >>>>> >>>>The message you sent me is marked with the "windows-1255" codepage >>>>(basically the same as iso-8859-8-i, as far as hebrew is concerened). Yet >>>>these hebre wcharacters seem to be encoded as UTF-8 . >>>> >>>Oops, this is not UTF-8 (7) or anything that complicated. Those are simply >>>acented latin characters. >>> >>>The thing is that your current keyboard mapping is probably emiting >>>accented latin characters (a.k.a "gibrish") instead of real hebrew >>>characters. >>> >>>If you'll run xev and type some hebrew characters, you'll probably see >>>that you get the keysym "agrave" instead of Alef, "aacute" instead of >>>Beit, etc. You should send "hebrew_aleph" and "hebrew_bet". >>> >>>See: >>> >>>http://www.iglu.org.il/faq/cache/85.html >>> >>know I found the master, it's just that I am using the standard Hebrew >>keyboard mapping that comes with KDE on RH 6.2. >> > >Since I happen to use kikbd here (part of kde that comes under >/opt/sfw/kde for solaris 8), I'd like you to try the following key >mapping. > >Put the attached file in: > >.kde/share/apps/kikbd/ [ Actually now it can be found at ftp://linux.org.il/pub/Hebrew/Keymaps/Kikbd ] >The name should remain ??.kimap . > >Then go to the kikbd setup, and add he "hebrew2" map. It should have a >different color (blue) as it is supplied by the user, and not by the >system. בפירוש נראה כאילו המקלדת ששלחת לי פתרה את הבעיה. -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
