On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 03:32:03PM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 02:43:11AM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > 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. > >
[ snip ] > > > > > 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. > > XFree has such phonetic keymap. Use il_phnetic instead of il . The file > it uses are taken from under /usr/X11/lib/xkb/symbols , (or > /usr/X11/lib/xkb/symbols/pc ). What version of XFree do you use? > (alternatively: what do you use? Mandrake 9.1 and RedHat 9 come with > XFree 4.3 that changed some things there) Oops, you mentioned debian testing. So I figure you use XFree < 4.3 . Look at /usr/X11/lib/xkb/symbols/il_phonetic . > > > 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. :) There is xkbprint , but I have yet to figure out how to convince it to produce Hebrew (it produces ugly "hebrew_foo" names). Anything better? -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= 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]
