On 17 May 2002, Moshe Zadka wrote: > On Fri, 17 May 2002, Hetz Ben Hamo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > So what are the reasons for not switching our official language here from > > English to Hebrew (not in a day, but rather in a month->2 months time > > period)? Please reply and explain your position... > > * mutt > > * pms > > * elm
use vim as the editor. > > (these three do not contain an editor, here is a survey of editors: > > * nvi -- not supporting > > * nano -- not supporting > > * joe -- not supporting > > * jed -- not supporting) > > If you do use Hebrew, which encoding would you use? Win-1255? ISO-8859-8? > UTF-8? What about console support (for those using the lists to help > them install X)? Eventually UTF-8. But in the time being, a cmbination of the two (windows-12555 and ISO-8859-8-i are basically the same for this purpose. ISO-8859-8, as "visual-Hebrew" should not be used, and UTF-8 should eventually be used, so we will be able to include characters of languages ther than English and Hebrew in the messages) > > Now, let's go on. We're all UNIX users, we want to use grep, sed and > awk on our mailboxes. Make sure I can type Hebrew in bash too, in > all encodings expected. RTFM locale (7). supported by bash. > > People expect to browse the archives with w3m, lynx and links. Are > you sure all these have good enough Hebrew support? Not sure about links and w3m (haven't tested). Lynx has a very solid supportof charsets. -- 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]
