* Arieh Skliarouk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060427 21:13]: > Hello, > > Sometime ago I bought Linux based PDA - Zaurus SL-5500.
Did you buy it in Isreal? I am interested in a zauris. Thanks, Aaron I have installed > OpenZaurus 3.5.4 on it and using it for various tasks: > * books reader (with cyrillic) > * mp3 and ogg player > * dictionary (english-russian) > * some blessings holder (I read them through opera on locally installed > apache+php). > * addressbook > > I am still not sure whether I can use it as GPS navigator in Israel: several > programs exists, but AFAIK none provides nor maps for Israel, nor ability to > import them from some other program. > Do you know of any way to use the PDA as GPS navigator? > > The OpenZaurus has package opie-multikey, that provides keymaps for > on-screen keyboard to type international symbols and send unicode codes to > applications. Unfortunately, the opie-multikey program lacks hebrew keymap > file. I have no idea of the keymap file format, and thus attached russian > and arabic keymaps file in hope for someone to recognize the format. > Is there somewhere an ready to use opie-multikey format for hebrew? > > Upon completion of previous task, the next task I would like to use the PDA > for is Hebrew-English dictionary. The OpenZaurus has opie-odict and zbedic > as dictionary engines, but no hebrew dictonaries. > Do you know of any public domain hebrew-english dictionaries? > > I have found several popular blessings on internet in unicode format of > various quality. Most of them lack nikud, many are for Sfaradim and all of > them are not interactive. I wrote ugly hack on php that consultes with > hebcal [taken from debian ARM distribution] on RoshHodesh and inserts "Yaale > veYavo" into "Birkat haMazon", but that is. > Are there any public domain blessings in open (read: plain unicode) format? > > The following is not so Israel related, but still... > > My wife sometimes steals the PDA for books reading, so I am looking for new > one. And I want it to be SmartPhone, e.g. to include phone capabilities. The > closests I have found is (still vaporware) > http://www.road-gmbh.de/en/produkte/index_01.html. > Do you have other recomendations for Linux enabled, tamperable (e.g. no > Motorola please), smart phone? > > -- > Arieh ================================================================= 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]
