On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Eliran Gonen wrote: > <note> I apologize if this e-mail was sent twice, my net connection > dropped and I can't find out if it was after or before I pressed > the Send button > </note> > > Hello Group ! > > Lately I received some hebrew messages in mutt mailer, and mutt, is > being run with gnome-terminal that comes with the default RH8.0 > installation. > > Now the problem, is that to see hebrew, I have to change the terminal's > font and mutt's encoding... I have changed the encoding (in .muttrc) > but had problems with the gnome-terminal Fonts/Profile dialog. It seems > it doesn't support any iso8859-8 fonts... > > After googling a little bit, I found an interesting discussion in some > debian mailing list and found that gnome-terminal (of gnome2) doesn't > support Thai & Chiniese neither. Also in the discussion I found they > recommend another terminal : mlterm - Now does anybody have a better > alternative ?
However, mlterm does have an interesting feature: you can disable the bidi support. The bidi support of the terminal is far from being perfect, and piping a message to fribidi/bidiv after disabling the bidi upport of the terminal may help you read the message. > > Anyone ever succeded viewing hebrew/iso8859-8 messages through mutt ? I > tried to save the file and open it with another > hebrew-support-enabled-viewer but I only saw '?''s which seems > to be the '?' symbol and not the can-not-read-hebrew one. Maybe pipe message through iconv: iconv -f ISO-8859-8 -t UTF-8 untested > > Is there anyway to enable iso8859-8/iso10646-1 fonts in Gnome2 dialog ? > These type of fonts are not even listed in the Gnome -> Preferences -> > Font dialog... > > If there is no solution, but waiting for the next update of gnome, then, do you >have any > idea for a better terminal, which has the ability to change Fonts/Colors and other >features > of gnome-terminal (from Gnome2) that can be changed without any struggling ? -- 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]
