> > hmmm, very strange, locale on latest gentoo dont have Hebrew UTF
> >
> > the version is: (GNU libc) 2.3.1
> >
> > Maybe this effect the Xkb ?
> >
> > locale -a|grep utf
> > ar_IN.utf8
> > en_IN.utf8
> > fa_IR.utf8
> > hi_IN.utf8
> > ko_KR.utf8
> > mr_IN.utf8
> > se_NO.utf8
> > ta_IN.utf8
> > te_IN.utf8
> > ur_PK.utf8
> > vi_VN.utf8
>
> Generate one. But use the name: "he_IL.UTF-8". ("utf8" vs. "UTF-8"
> shouldn't make a difference, but then again, someone might actually rely
> on the charset part in the future)

after lots of hard time I finally found out how to generate it:
localedef -f UTF-8 -i he_IL he_IL.UTF-8

but still after export I couldn't write Hebrew in X or view Hebrew filename
on the HD.

Any ideas ? refers ?

>
> And I was going to add:
>
>   A UTF-8 locale takes some extra space
>
> But then I tried to locate the locale files, I found none, ascept
> /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
>
> I was not aware of this locale-archive before. I'm not sure the command
> 'locale -a' is aware of at now:
>
>   $ locale -a
>   C
>   POSIX
>
> Yes, I do have proper he_IL (which is ISO-8859-8) , he_IL.UTF-8, en_US
> and en_US-UTF-8 , accoring to my /etc/locale.gen (debian-specific), and
> those locales seem fully-functional.
>
>
> -- 
> Tzafrir Cohen                       +---------------------------+
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