On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 07:14:57PM +0300, Beni Cherniavsky wrote:
> Micha Feigin wrote on 2003-07-05:
>
> > Micha Feigin wrote on 2003-06-30:
> >
> > > > How do I get xterm to show hebrew file names ?
> > > >
> > > > I set the font properly, but I get the files appearing as a bunch of
> > > > question marks (????_??.html)
> > > >
> > > In the output of ``ls``, right? Try ``ls -N``.
> >
> Do try ``ls -N``. What do you see?
>
> > > First, what does ``locale`` show you? And what's the encoding of the
> > > file names.
> >
> > locale returns:
> > [snip]
> >
> > > What does your `/etc/fstab` look like?
> >
> > The relevent entry:
> > /dev/hda2 / reiserfs defaults 0 0
>
> OK, you don't have any locale whatsoever set up. What linux
> (distro+version) is it? Another post by you says debian unstable.
> Great, it's recent so there should be no problems setting up a UTF-8
> environment. If anybody knows some canonical way to configure this on
> debian, chime in now.
What do you mean? What do you need to set-up?
>
> First thing to try: launch ``xterm -u8`` and do::
> python -c 'print u"\N{HEBREW LETTER ALEF}".encode("UTF-8")'
echo -e '\327\220'
>
> Do you see an Alef?
>
> Second thing: set up (in your `~/.bash_profile` or somewhere in
> /etc)::
> LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
> Arrange a Hebrew keyboard (e.g. by ``setxkbmap -layout us,il``).
'setxkbmap us,il' will do.
This is relevant to X, and not to the console, though.
Also: debian still has XFree 4.2 . In there you need 'setkxbmap il' (no
'us').
> Now try creating and listing Hebrew texts and filenames. Does it
> work?
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