hi all, i just converted my system to UTF-8. xterms, mutt, vim all are unicode capable now. the only thing left for me to conquer is a keymap and a font. i'm on debian testing.
about fonts. now that everything is ISO10646, i need to start using ISO10646 fonts to get hebrew (vowels are necessary for me right now). played around with xfontsel to see what my options were, and i was a little shocked. when viewing: *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-* there were only about 30 font families available (including times new roman, arial, lucida, courier, verdana, etc) and none of them were culmus fonts. basically, it was only true type fonts that come from MS core font package. none of the culmus fonts can be used in UTF-8 encoding? that doesn't sound right to me. in other words, i can use culmus in pango applications, but not with xterms and vim?!? next, the keymap. i found an excellent keymap along with a png of the keyboard layout at: http://imagic.weizmann.ac.il/~dov/Hebrew/pango-hebrew.html but my english speaking brain really can't wrap around it. aleph should be where the "a" key is. i've seen hebrew phonetic keymaps in vim, but i'd like to have a phonetic keymap for everything else as well. does anybody know of a phonetic hebrew ready made keymap? preferably something that documents the keystrokes. one of the nice things about dov's effort is the cool png that comes with it that shows key layout. the other cool thing is being able to toggle between hebrew and english with the right alt key. that was a really nice touch. :) thanks! pete -- GPG Instructions: http://www.dirac.org/linux/gpg GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D ================================================================= 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]
