On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 02:46:28PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > > At Sun, 31 Oct 2004 22:27:12 +0200, > > Amit Aronovitch wrote: > > > > > > First of all, thanks Tzafrir - I was not aware that the lyx and SI > > > variants had any bidi chars in them > > > (I do remember googlin and greppin around before starting to mess with > > > symbol files - probably did not do that very well - since now I can > > > easily find the stuff you mention...) > > > > > > Herouth Maoz wrote: > > > > > > > Actually, OpenOffice behaves better than you said. When you enter the > > > > characters you may get a square, but as soon as you put some text next > > > > to them, the squares disappear. At least that's what happens in my > > > > environment. > > > > > > > > > Did you try the PDF symbol? It seems that at least with the default > > > fonts, PDF stays a visible square, while others appear as specialized > > > cursor-like graphics. > > > > > > > OO shows me the RLM and LRM characters as a small right-angled arrow. Took > > some > > time to figure out I need to put one before the text and one after. Also > > tried > > with LRE/PDF and LRO/PDF, those showed up as squares. The problem is that > > they > > also showed up on the pdf exported output (RLM/LRM as arrow and LRE/LRO/PDF > > as > > spaces). How do I hide them in the output ? (debian OO 1.1.2) > > > > Also, what is the difference between all of these? Mainly LRE vs. LRO are > > puzzling. > > What charset do you use? > > ISO-8859-8 includes none of the special bidi chars. cp1255 contains only > LRM and RLM . UTF-8 has them all. >
LANG is set to he_IL (which is 8859-8 I believe), font in OO is times new roman (didn't seem to help changing the font) playing with no displaying characters didn't seem to help. I tried setting LANG to he_IL.UTF8 but that didn't help. > ================================================================= 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]
